Pingjiang is a flat city, the vast plains give it almost unlimited room for development, and the city's buildings expand in all directions, so that the city center is quite sparse.

The wind in the city is very strong, and no matter where you stand at the intersection, you can feel the wind coming, as if you are standing in a wave of air, and those vehicles and pedestrians who do not obey the traffic rules are rampage like rolled up sand and gravel.

Yang Rui stepped off the round-headed commuter car, felt the chaotic wind, and saw the chaotic streets. Tricycles and carts blocking the bus station doors, dragging passers-by to ask for prices; thugs in jeans or green trousers staring at the crowd with their glasses slanted, grabbing a vendor's apple and stuffing it into their mouths; two- to four-story buildings are scattered around them, with clothes to dry, greenery and pigeon cages.

What is interesting is that the clothes people wear are surprisingly consistent, and the colors are mostly gray. If you think about it, the same is true for Xixian County and Xibao Town, but because there are fewer people and fewer spacious commercial streets, it is impossible to feel it.

Occasionally, a girl in a red or yellow dress will pass by, and no matter how much she looks or is, it is enough to make people shine.

It's a gray city.

Gray air, gray streets, gray clothes, gray bicycles, gray vehicles, gray buildings, gray mood and gray sky.

The noise in his ears and the chaos he saw made Yang Rui frown, in addition to the huge scale, Pingjiang at this time was not more prosperous than the county seat in later generations, but it was even more chaotic and dirty than the county seat in later generations.

"It's better to live in the country than to live here. Yang Rui rubbed the black ash, shook his head, and found a tricycle to go to the city's No. 1 Middle School.

Resource cities have never been a place to live, but wealth is often gathered, and from time to time you can see a few cars that clearly belong to individuals, most of them with military signs, but the people inside often do not look like soldiers.

Privileged cars are a sign of the times, and in the days when there is no private car, if you don't want to find a good license plate, the problems you encounter while driving will be much more troublesome.

The tricycle pulled Yang Rui directly to the No. 1 Middle School Guest House, which is only one step away from the gate of No. 1 Middle School, and as long as there is a letter of introduction from the state unit, he can move in.

Shi Gui trotted to greet him, took Yang Rui's bag with a smile, and said, "It's not easy to walk on the road, right? I've booked the room, you can rest for a while, and I'll invite you to dinner in the evening. ”

"There's no hurry to eat, you take the slips and go to the bus station to pick up the books. That book kiosk also has our books?" Yang Rui relaxed a little, handed the pickup list to Shi Gui, and began to observe the surroundings.

In terms of sales ability, he may not be as expensive as Shi, but at least his vision is not bad.

The advertisements outside the kiosk are very conspicuous, but the colors seem to be as gray, because of the scarcity of colored pigments, Yang Rui did not take this layer into account when designing posters in the school, he thought that the provincial city would at least be as gorgeous as the ordinary cities in later generations, and felt that the gray advertising paintings were not unavoidable.

I never thought that the current provincial capital would look so dilapidated.

Shi Gui didn't think there was a problem, and said with a smile: "Anyone who hangs a big pictorial is selling New Concept English, and nearly 200 copies have been sold in the past two days, so it should be said that the sales have increased a little." ”

"The Great Pictorial is the name you gave it?"

"It's from Boss Jia in this bookstore, it's quite conspicuous, isn't it? Many students came to look at the painting on it, looked at it, and bought a copy. ”

"Yes, that's it...... It should be more conspicuous, I brought a new advertisement, which added the slogan of the second volume of New Concept English, let's buy some bright watercolors and crayons, and make the advertisement colorful at night. ”

Shi Gui paused and said, "Is it necessary? ”

"I have to tell everyone that the second volume of New Concept English has arrived. Our situation is bad enough, and I can't hold on if I don't find a way to expand sales. Yang Rui said half-jokingly, and said: "I owe 12,500 yuan to the bank to print the second volume of New Concept English, you said, you can sell 500 copies a day." ”

"Ah...... Yes, that's right. When Shi Gui heard 12,500 yuan, he couldn't help but shudder, it was not worry, it was excitement.

According to the profit share, if he can really sell 20,000 copies of New Concept English, he can make 1,000 yuan at least, but it is a lot of money.

There was a shop selling watercolor pens and crayons near the school, and the two spent one night drawing the paper Yang Ruixin brought in color.

Early the next morning, Shi Gui rode a tricycle and began to make deliveries to the surrounding area.

Pingjiang is a big city, but this is from the point of view of the 80s. At this time, Bei*Beijing only had the scale of the Second Ring Road, and the capital of Hedong Province was so large that it was just impossible to use walking as the main mode of transportation.

Yang Rui waited in the bookstore closest to No. 1 Middle School, chatting with Boss Jia while waiting for the sales time to come.

This is a new experience, a bit like the feeling of waiting for students to come to the door after posting a small advertisement, but it is different, because the current work is not familiar to him.

He is familiar with teaching, he is familiar with biology, he can copy and write textbooks at the same time, but he does not understand sales.

Fortunately, the big red letters of "New Concept English Volume 2 Arrives" have played a role.

When noon came, without Yang Rui's shouting, some students took the initiative to come to the door and ask, "Where is the second volume of your new concept English?"

Yang Rui immediately took it to him.

Jiefang Printing House is an old factory, and the printed "New Concept English" is a white paper, with a few big characters on the cover of New Concept English, followed by the first or second volume of the note, and the inner page is also the simplest typesetting, which looks very ordinary.

The student who got the book looked at it for a while and asked, "Is it true?"

"The content is true. Boss Jia replied with a smile.

The student gave a look of surprise and then began to look down, apparently to confirm the contents.

Even if it is a pirated version of the new concept of English, the price is 8 cents, which is a week's consumption of ordinary students, and they have to understand it before they can buy it.

However, there are very few textbooks and tutorials today, and the choices of students are far less abundant than those of later generations.

As more and more students came to read the books, the book kiosks were also crowded with people.

But none of the students paid.

Yang Rui's expression became more and more solemn, for him, this is definitely not a good phenomenon. Not only did he want to sell books, but he wanted to sell them quickly.

If the students here are hesitant to pay for it, it may be guessed that most of them are hesitant to pay.

"Please give me a copy of New Concept English Book 2. Another girl with a schoolbag came to the library, she lowered her head and said a word, and quietly looked at Yang Rui from the corner of her eye.

Nowadays, there are fewer TVs and TV shows, and there are fewer live events, and there are not many opportunities to meet really handsome guys.

Yang Rui was quite proud, we ran and bench press so hard, isn't it just for a good figure? So he smiled back, and then reached out to get the book.

Then, the catch is empty.

"I'm sorry, but all the books are here. Just wait a minute. Yang Rui pointed to the people around him, with a smile on his face, seeing the young and lovely female students always makes people feel better.

"It's okay, I'll wait for them to finish reading. The female student smiled shyly at Yang Rui, then took a step back shyly, and her eyes inadvertently swept towards the others.

The boy closest to her seemed to feel the pressure, looked around, looked at the book in his hand, and suddenly said, "So many people?"

"Well, have you chosen?" Yang Rui said amicably.

The boy glanced at the empty bookshelf in the kiosk, and then at the cute girl who was "eyeing the tiger", and suddenly made a decision: "I bought it, a piece of eight, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Here you go. The boy handed over the money to Boss Jia, holding a new concept English book 2, turned around and left.

The young and lovely girl's gaze turned for a moment, and then glanced at the girl on the right.

As if a chain reaction, the girl who was being watched by the eyes decisively took out one yuan of anise to Boss Jia, put the new concept English in her hand into her bag, and left quickly.

One student after another began to pay, and all the while, no books were returned.

Some students may want to wait, but seeing that the "New Concept English Volume 2" in the library has fallen into the hands of other students, no one is willing to return it.

More and more students decided to pay, and some discussed buying them together, but no matter what they decided, no one returned the books back to the kiosk.

"Don't have any books?" the cute girl plucked up her courage and asked Yang Rui directly.

"I'm sorry, but I prepared a total of 30 copies today, I thought there were quite a few. If it's sold out, you can come and see it in the afternoon. When Yang Rui said this, he was excited.

Shi Gui found a total of about 40 kiosks to distribute goods, each kiosk has 30 books, if they are all sold, it will be 1,200 copies, even if this number is discounted by half, it perfectly meets Yang Rui's requirements.

Besides, you might be able to sell some books in the afternoon.

Soon, the second volume of all the new concepts in English sold out. Someone naturally picked up the rest of the New Concept English Book 1 and asked, "Is this a set?"

"Yes, New Concept English Volume 1 is more suitable for beginners, from the simplest vocabulary part to the second difficulty of junior high school, and the second volume is probably high school difficulty. Yang Rui explained simply.

The boy who spoke unexpectedly opened the white paper, quickly flipped half back, and looked at it carefully.

Gradually, the number of people who picked up the first book also increased.

As Yang Rui said, the most suitable for the general public is the first volume of New Concept English, especially for current students who lack the foundation, memorizing or reading the first volume will have a good effect.

Although some students gave up on buying the first book, which they felt was too simple and wasteful, some students started to buy the first book.

When the flow of people became sparse, there were only a few copies left in the first volume of the unsalable new concept English here of Boss Jia.

"Sold!" Sending the last person away, Yang Rui sat on the maza, feeling more hard than making two sets of real yàn, but the mood was extremely happy.

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