The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 96 Buying Gifts

It's still the same small room.

Cheng Mo slept until nine o'clock.

On the first day of the new year, he really didn't want to get up, but when he thought about going to Mr. Cao's house to pay New Year's greetings today, he had to get out of bed.

The problem is, he can't go wearing his usual work clothes...

If I go back and change my clothes this time, it will probably be in the afternoon. Just when I was feeling worried, my sister Cheng Hua walked in with a brand new set of clothes.

"I made it for you. I told you last night, but when I finished washing the dishes, I saw that you were already asleep, so I didn't wake you up." Cheng Hua said.

"Sister, does this cost a lot of money?"

"If I spend it on you, can I still settle the money with you?" Cheng Hua took away Cheng Mo's dirty clothes and said, "I'll wash them for you in a while."

"Thank you, sister." Cheng Mo quickly got up, got dressed, washed up, and then went out carrying the gift his sister had prepared for him.

Cao Youshan has many apprentices, and there are naturally many people who come to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year. Cheng Mo doesn't know a few of them.

They gave each other hands to congratulate each other, and then, after entering the door, they greeted Mr. Cao one by one, kowtowed, and then left.

The main reason is that there are so many people that there is no room for them to stand in the living room.

Cheng Mo was also relatively young, so they probably thought he was coming with the elders in the family to pay New Year greetings, so they naturally ignored him.

Even Mr. Cao didn't pay attention. It wasn't until he saw the name on the gift left by Cheng Mo later that he remembered that the young disciple he had accepted had already come to celebrate the New Year.

This family has been here before, so it’s hard to choose a gift.

This matter can only be forgotten.

Cheng Mo walked around the street, bought some snacks, candied haws, fried rice cakes and the like, and returned to his sister's apartment again.

"Mr. Cao didn't keep you for dinner?"

"What are you going to eat? People paying New Year's greetings come one after another, as if they are queuing up. Who are they keeping?" Cheng Mo chuckled and put the snacks in his hand into his sister's arms. "Sister, I'm right here. You have something to eat here, and you have to go to work in a while."

"It's the Chinese New Year, and your patrol office isn't even on holiday yet."

"Westerners don't celebrate the Spring Festival. Besides, if the police station is on holiday, who will maintain public order?" Cheng Mo said.

"Sister, what are you prepared for? All you have is the leftovers from last night?"

"It doesn't matter, as long as you stutter." Cheng Mo said with a smile, "This is much better than suffering from cold and hunger when I was a child."

After eating, Cheng Mo went downstairs and rode his bicycle to work.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Laozha prison house seemed a little deserted. Even if the Chinese prisoners did not rest, they could still find ways to be lazy on this day.

Westerners in the middle class also know that this is a traditional festival for Chinese people, and as long as it is not excessive, they will turn a blind eye.

Cheng Mo entered the office and started to deal with his work.

Not long after, Xu Qinghe and A Liang came in together. When they saw Cheng Mo, they quickly put their hands together and said to each other: Happy New Year.

"Xiao Chengtan, I heard that the Old Town God's Temple is very lively today, with huge crowds of people. Have you gone?"

"I don't like to join in the fun. Why would I go to a place like that? If you have nothing to do later, go back early in the evening." Cheng Mo ordered.

"Hey, okay."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Mo also went out for patrol and casually walked around Nanjing Road. The feeling of being stared at came again.

He knew that day was coming again. You have to figure out who this guy is.

Cheng Mo thought for a while and walked directly into Xianshi Department Store. The concession was not a traditional Chinese urban area. It was also open on New Year's Day. However, there were not many Chinese people visiting the department store.

Department store counters are relatively deserted.

Cheng Mo happened to want to pick out a few gifts. Whether it was for his sister or Su Moer, his younger brother and boyfriend had neglected their duties.

When the manager of the department store learned that Cheng Mo was coming, he immediately came to entertain him personally and promised that he would receive a 20% discount on his purchases here.

The products sold in Xianshi Department Store are not cheap. Even if they are domestic products, they are also high-quality domestic products. Since they are high-quality products, the quality must not be bad, and the prices cannot be lower than foreign products.

What's more, the cost of domestic products is not low.

Gifts for women are nothing more than jewelry and cosmetics. Cosmetics are consumables. You can buy them at any time. If it is your first time to give them, you must at least be sincere.

Cheng Mo can be considered rich now. With the popularity of "Ghost Husband", he has earned tens of thousands of French currency. The novel, which is priced at two yuan and a half, is now on the road for the third time. The previous one was five yuan. Thousands, two additional printings totaled 30,000 copies, adding up to a total of 35,000 copies. The cost was 50 cents per copy, plus labor, transportation, taxes, etc., one dollar was a lot.

If you sell it yourself, you will earn 1.5 yuan per copy according to the pricing, and 20% off for channel distribution, or even no discount later.

Because all these books are sold at a markup, and the price has only come down during the recent Chinese New Year.

Cheng Mo made another wave of peripheral postcards, character greeting cards, etc., and took advantage of the Chinese New Year to make another huge profit.

This amount made a full profit of 50,000 yuan, and 30% of this money was allocated to Wang Hai and his "Zhengdong Library".

Excluding this part, he still has thirty-five thousand yuan on hand.

This is pure profit.

For the third time, Cheng Mo printed 50,000 copies in one go and invested almost half of the profits he had made earlier.

But according to the current market conditions, the market is capable of swallowing up these 50,000 copies, and the capital can be completely recovered within half a year at most.

Once a novel is published and has more than 50,000 copies, it is considered a big hit. As for how many copies it can sell in the future, I don’t know.

This is a period of continuous income, and it is a very friendly era for authors and publishers.

In addition, he can also authorize other publishing houses to publish and translate it into other versions, which will bring him a steady stream of income.

Not to mention other versions, just the Japanese version, he can directly translate it himself, saving even the cost of translation.

At least I don't have to worry about money for the time being.

Cheng Mo carefully selected a pair of earrings for his sister Chen Hua, and bought a platinum necklace for Su Morer. The workmanship was very good, and of course, the price was also very impressive.

Packaged in a beautiful box.

He also remembered that Su’s mother protected him in every possible way. Although he had given him a vinyl record before, he should still give him another New Year’s gift.

So I bought an jade bracelet. As for Su's father, he couldn't have a daughter and a wife, leaving the father-in-law empty-handed.

After thinking for a while, my father-in-law smoked, and I originally wanted to buy a lighter, but I thought it was not suitable, so I finally bought a handmade European pipe.

And the future brother-in-law, this is easy to kill. As a student, you should study hard, and a Parker pen will do.

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