The bookstore clerk didn't know why, but he felt that the air was a bit chilly in this summer.
The look in the eyes of the girl who looked like a fairy outside the door frightened him inexplicably.
He quickly posted the transfer paper in his hand at the door and slipped back into the study room.
Gu Changle smiled and said: "The location of this bookstore is not good, and there is nothing we can do about it if it is not managed well."
"I'll just go to the bookstore on the main street later to have a look."
"There are two big bookstores over there. I have taken on a lot of work there before, and the prices are higher."
Su Yu also knew that Gu Changle had a way to save so much private money before.
Gu Changle did this so that he could concentrate on his studies.
Su Yu took a look at the bookstore.
The bookstore is not big and the location is average.
I just don’t know what the transfer price is.
If you have enough money, it would be a good idea to purchase a bookstore.
Gu Changle saw that Su Yu kept looking at the large transfer letter, and asked curiously: "But what are you going to buy?"
Su Yu thought for a while and said, "Go in and buy some calligraphy paper."
Gu Changle agreed and asked Su Yu to take the things back to Li Erlang.
Li Erlang's hands were full, and Su Yu felt a little embarrassed.
"sorry to bother you."
Li Erlang replied with a cheerful and sunny smile, and followed Hongying to leave first.
Su Yu and Gu Changle entered the room and asked for some rough paper for calligraphy practice.
This bookstore is for sale, and things are cheaper than the bookstores in town.
Seeing this, Su Yu bought some good paper and planned to stock it up for school.
After buying it, Su Yu asked the clerk in the store.
"I see that your bookstore is for sale. I wonder what the price will be?"
Seeing that Su Yu was dressed in ordinary clothes, the waiter thought that he couldn't afford it.
But he had just taken care of his own business, so his attitude was very good.
"Our boss said that if it is transferred, all the goods here must be transferred together."
"So the price won't be cheap. The shop and the goods are estimated to cost more than 300 taels."
"More than three hundred taels..."
After hearing this price, Su Yu felt that he was completely done with it.
His entire net worth is less than thirty taels, let alone more than three hundred taels.
But after asking the beginning, he couldn't help but ask more details.
"If the bookstore is transferred, where are the engraving and printing masters in your bookstore?"
"Are you following your boss to open a bookstore elsewhere?"
Gu Changle looked at Su Yu with some confusion.
I always felt that he was a little too detailed in asking these questions, as if he was very interested in this bookstore.
The clerk replied: "Our boss is not going to do the bookstore business in the future."
"We are preparing to dismiss some masters who only signed living contracts."
"However, if the person who takes over continues to operate the bookstore, the owner is willing to transfer it together with the masters' contracts."
The shop alone already costs 300 taels, plus the four living deeds of the masters and the like, it would be impossible to get even 400 taels without them.
After Su Yu heard this, he didn't say anything more and just nodded.
Carrying the purchased paper, he took Gu Changle back home.
On the way, I first told Gu Changle about meeting Master Lu in the mansion school.
After finishing speaking, he sighed: "Maybe you are really lucky."
"Even I share your good fortune."
Gu Changle smiled and said: "Maybe the master really took a fancy to your talent and gave you such treatment?"
Old man Zhao was so satisfied with Su Yu yesterday, not to mention that today he is just a master.
But Magistrate Lu is the best at observing words and emotions.
Gu Changle thought that Master Lu was probably instigated by him to act like this.
But this is fine.
This saves Su Yu from worrying about such trivial matters.
Gu Changle asked again: "Just now I saw that you asked about that bookstore very carefully. Do you want to buy that bookstore?"
Su Yu said truthfully: "I really want to, but we don't have enough money to buy it."
"It costs about four hundred taels in total, so I can't afford it."
As far as Su Yu knew, the shops in their town were only a few dozen taels each.
Skip the county seat and arrive at Fucheng.
The price has increased at least ten times.
Although the goods in the house are included, the reason why the books themselves are very expensive.
But the price is something he can't afford now.
Gu Changle said: "The bookstore is not well managed. Even if we change the owner and continue in this business, we probably won't make any money."
Su Yu smiled and said, "This is natural."
"After all, there is more than one bookstore in Fucheng. This bookstore is not in a good location and has no core competitiveness."
"Core competitiveness?" Gu Changle didn't know why.
"What is this?"
"Oh, it's the kind of unique products that support this store."
"As far as I know, in other big bookstores, in addition to various novels, the most important thing is that there are all kinds of fresh imperial examination materials for students to choose from."
After every provincial examination, general examination and palace examination, these big bookstores will send people to the ceremonial rooms in various places to guard them early.
Just to wait for the results to come out, I would copy back the articles that were on the list.
These articles are either sold individually or made into collections, and they will be the best-selling products at the moment.
Therefore, it is really not that simple to make the bookstore bigger.
Networking is a must.
This is one of the reasons why those big families can control the local context.
The small bookstore can only survive by selling some ordinary four treasures of the study and imperial examination articles that are lagging behind others.
Such a bookstore simply lacks core competitiveness.
Gu Changle had only heard of this kind of thing.
I didn't expect that Su Yu would be so clear.
Su Yu spoke so eloquently and even thought about buying that small bookstore, which meant that he must have a trick that no one else had and could use that bookstore to make money.
Gu Changle tentatively said, "You want to buy that bookstore."
"So what you're saying is that you can make something for sale that other bookstores don't have?"
Su Yu raised his eyebrows, "I was discovered by you."
He boasted rather confidently.
"If you let me run it, I really have an advantage that no other bookstore has."
"pity……"
"Four hundred taels, you can't squeeze out even if you sell me."
Su Yu was a little embarrassed.
His poems and essays can certainly be sold for money, and he can also write some novels that did not exist in this era and sell them for money.
But it's not that quick to sell for four hundred taels.
"It would be great if that store would let me pay in installments."
"Oh? Installment payment?" Gu Changle was quite interested.
"What is this?"
"You just need to pay part of the money up front, and then pay part of it every month."
"This way, there will be a lot of pressure first."
But think about it.
Four hundred taels, even if paid in installments, he probably wouldn't be able to afford the down payment.
Su Yu looked at the sky speechlessly.
"That's all, I don't want to go this far."
Gu Changle suddenly said: "How about we ask the store owner to see if he is willing to... pay in installments?"
Su Yu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll ask you tomorrow."
Although there is a high probability that he will not do it, how can he give up if he doesn’t give it a try?
