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Chapter 41 Counting Money
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In the early morning, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. From time to time, there are crisp birdsong on the branches of the street. This is a leisurely morning.

However, the entrance of the Meteor Store at No. 119 Fiction Street was dark and crowded, with three floors inside, three floors outside, and three floors in the middle.On the outermost sidewalk, there was a queue more than ten meters long.

These people are all book fans who came to buy books, and what they want to buy is the same book - "Detective Wang Nan".

"Everyone, don't squeeze! Come one by one! Don't grab!"

"Aunt, you don't need to choose, they are all new books that just arrived!"

"Master, you haven't paid yet!"

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At the entrance of Meteor Bookstore, Liu Xing, Liu Shiming, Liu's father and Liu's mother are in a hurry, dealing with waves of book-buying customers.Inside the bookstore, Wang Lanlan and Xing Wanli rolled up their sleeves and were moving stacks of "Detective Wang Nan" to the door for sale.

Today is the first day of "Detective Wang Nan" going on sale, and the store is short of staff, so Liu Xing called his parents, Wang Lanlan, and Xing Wanli to help.He thought that this should be almost the same, but he never thought that he was still too naive, and far underestimated the enthusiasm of book fans for the novel "Detective Wang Nan".

Early in the morning, hundreds of book fans surrounded the bookstore, wanting to snap up "Detective Wang Nan", and the scene almost got out of control.

While hundreds of customers were frantically buying novels at the Meteor Bookstore, the Fugui Bookstore next door was deserted. After opening for an entire hour, there was not a single customer.

People like to join in the fun, many customers who were planning to enter the Fugui Bookstore, saw so many people in the Meteor Bookstore, ran over to find out.

Seeing that the Meteor Bookstore had sold hundreds of novels, but he had no income, Cai Fugui felt angry.

At this time, an old man suddenly walked into Fugui Bookstore.

After finally meeting a customer, Cai Fugui hurried forward and asked, "Master, do you want to buy books?"

The old man waved his hand: "There are too many people in the bookstore next door, and I'm too tired to line up. I'll rest here for a while."

"..." Hearing what he said, Cai Fugui's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't bear it any longer. He immediately took out his mobile phone and called the police.

A few minutes later, a police patrol car arrived, and as soon as a policeman got out of the car, Cai Fugui hurried forward, pointed at the long queue at the entrance of Meteor Bookstore, and said, "Comrade policeman, look, This is really outrageous, with so many people blocking the door of my book bar, my book bar can't even do business!"

The patrolman looked at the team that was rushing to buy books, and said, "Boss Cai, just understand that everyone is a scholar, good books are hard to come by, and it's normal to be crazy once in a while."

Cai Fugui frowned: "Your police won't ignore it, right?"

"It's not that I don't care, but I don't care. It's a good thing that the citizens are so enthusiastic about buying books. You should think of it as contributing to the city's spiritual civilization. Well, I'm off work, and my niece asked me to help her buy books. "Detective Wang Nan", I have to queue up quickly, otherwise the novel will be sold out in a while."

After speaking, the patrolman turned around and joined the line at the entrance of Meteor Bookstore, being the last one in line.

"..." Cai Fugui was so angry that his face changed, and he cursed inwardly: This group of policemen are really worthless!Take taxpayers money, but don't do things for taxpayers, bastard!
Gritting his teeth and cursing secretly, Cai Fugui hurried back to the book bar.

Out of sight out of mind!
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Ten hours later, night fell.

When the sun set from the west mountain, the customers at the entrance of Meteor Bookstore also left one after another, because the 10000 copies of "Detective Wang Nan" in the bookstore have all been sold out.

Although all the customers had left, Liu Xing still couldn't relax. There was a daunting task for him to complete—counting money.

A copy of "Detective Wang Nan" is priced at 35 yuan, and 10000 copies have been sold today, with a total sales of 35 yuan.Among the 35 coins, many of them were five yuan, two yuan, one yuan, and fifty cents change, and they were packed in two large cardboard boxes.

Liu Xing dumped all the money in the two boxes on the floor of the bookstore, and then began to organize them one by one, and every 100 sheets were bundled into a stack. Due to the heavy workload, Liu Shiming and Wang Lanlan also came to help.

The three of them formed a circle, swish, swish, and counted the banknotes together.

"I'm so tired!" At this time, Wang Lanlan, who had just finished counting a stack of one-yuan bills, said with her mouth curled up.

"Of course I'm tired of counting money." Liu Xing said while quickly counting a stack of two-yuan bills, "We've been counting for almost an hour, and my fingers are a little stiff."

Wang Lanlan said: "Counting money is tiring, and moving books is even more tiring. I moved a lot of books today, and now my arms are sore."

Liu Xing glanced at her white lotus-like arm: "How about I rub it for you?"

"No!" Wang Lanlan's dark eyes rolled, "You can pay me some salary, I can't let me do it for nothing."

"Salary? I think it's waived, you already have a commission."

Wang Lanlan is the author of "Detective Wang Nan". When these novels are sold, she can get a manuscript fee based on 15% of the sales.

"Liu Xing, you are really stingy. You sold so many books today, and you don't even want to give a tip." Wang Lanlan said with her mouth curled up, "No wonder people say that there is no profiteering, and you are a profiteer."

Liu Xing objected: "Nonsense, I am definitely an upright businessman."

Wang Lanlan said: "How can an honest businessman be as treacherous as you?"

"Who told you that honest businessmen can't commit rape?" Liu Xing educated, "Let me tell you, profiteers must commit crimes, and honest businessmen must be even more treacherous. Otherwise, how can you beat profiteers?"

"..." Wang Lanlan.

Listening to the bickering between the two, Liu Shiming couldn't help but smile slightly, and after counting another stack of money, she said: "Ah Xing, let's count the money here first, we have to go home for dinner."

Liu Xing rubbed his belly, he was really a little hungry, and then looked at the pile of money on the floor, which was more than half a meter high, and it was estimated that it would be endless in two hours, and he said: "Okay, go home first, Take the money home and let my father and mother count it."

After making a decision, the three moved the money on the floor back into a large cardboard box.

After that, they cleaned up briefly, and the three parted ways. Wang Lanlan went home alone, while Liu Xing and Liu Shiming rode motorcycles back to the hotel with a large box of money.

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"dad!"

Walking into the restaurant, Liu Xing saw his father cleaning the table, put the cardboard box on the table, and said, "Dad, this box is for you."

Liu's father looked at the big cardboard box and frowned: "What does this contain? A TV set?"

"No, it contains money."

"money?"

Father Liu opened the cardboard box and took a look. He was taken aback for a moment. The box was indeed full of banknotes.

"My sister and I just counted the money in the bookstore, but we didn't finish counting. The rest of the money will be counted by you and my mother." Liu Xing stretched himself, "I smell bad, go take a shower first."

Father Liu nodded: "Ming'er, don't be too busy, go upstairs and rest for a while."

"Ah."

After speaking, the siblings went upstairs together.

Father Liu looked at the money in the cardboard box, turned his head, and shouted into the kitchen, "Honey, come here and help count the money!"

After a while, Mother Liu came out wearing an apron and asked, "You don't know how to count yourself?"

Father Liu was unhappy, and pointed to the cardboard box: "Come over and have a look yourself, can I count this much money by myself?"

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The night is already deep.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Liu's father and Liu's mother were sitting on the bed, but they were busy counting money without resting.In front of them, there was a large pile of change, and the two old men were sorting out one by one.

They had been counting in the lobby on the first floor for more than an hour before, but they still hadn't finished counting. They had no choice but to work overtime tonight.

Although they worked overtime, the two old people enjoyed it. Counting money would not be tiring even if they worked overtime all night. After all, they counted their own money.

"Old man, why do you think our Xing is so lucky?" Mother Liu said with emotion while counting the banknotes.

More than a month ago, Liu Xing had just recovered from his dementia. After he came out, he first found a copy of "Book Tomb Notes" and went to the Book Testing Center to earn 10 yuan.Afterwards, under the circumstances of being completely unfavorable, miraculously got the management right of Caiyun Bookstore.After the bookstore opened, Liu Xing closed the store for more than 30 consecutive days. Many people thought that the bookstore was going to close down. As a result, he suddenly obtained the agency right of "Detective Wang Nan", sold 10000 copies at once, and earned nearly 10 yuan a day. ten thousand yuan.

In just one month, Liu Xing seemed to have done nothing, but the situation of the Liu family had undergone earth-shaking changes, and there was an unstoppable momentum faintly. Neither Liu's father nor Liu's mother had reacted. It's all so incredible, it's like a dream.

"Mountains don't turn around, maybe our Liu family is about to change their luck." Father Liu put down the banknotes in his hand, stretched his fingers, counting the banknotes for such a long time, a little cramp.As you get older, your muscles and bones are not as good as those of young people.

After a while, Liu's father yawned: "My wife, let's count the money here today, and count it tomorrow. I'm so sleepy."

"You old man, you dare to complain when you have money."

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While his parents were busy counting money, Liu Xing was also fighting for his goal, hiding in his room and reading the martial arts novel "Dragon and Babu".

He has read this novel many times, and the picture of "Dragon Babu" has been revised hundreds of times in his mind, and the matching degree of the novel has increased to 80%!

There are very few people whose novel matching degree exceeds 30%. Liu Xing has reached 80% now, which should be considered unprecedented.

There was just one question that baffled him.

Ordinary people read novels with a matching rate of more than 30%, and their minds will be obviously affected by the novels.For example, Cai Zhijian, his matching rate with "Goddess Raiders Diary" is as high as 34%. After reading the novel, his temperament changed drastically and he became a beauty fanatic.

Now Liu Xing has raised the match rate of "Dragon Babu" to 80%, but he found that he was not obviously influenced by the novel, and his behavior habits or personality did not change much. What is going on?

"Is there something wrong with my reading skills?"

Reading skills are profound, subtle, extensive and rich, and the theories that Liu Xing has come into contact with are just the tip of the iceberg.In Wang Lanlan's home, there are more than 5000 theoretical books on reading skills, involving knowledge in dozens of fields such as psychology, thinking, iconography, aesthetics, linguistics, engineering, astronomy, and fiction.

Liu Xing roughly estimated that it would take at least five or sixty years to learn all these theories.According to Wang Lanlan, his grandfather, Wang Tairan, spent more than 60 years learning it.

In comparison, Liu Xing currently has very little reading theory, and it is not impossible for him to make some mistakes or negligence in the specific operation of reading.

"Where is the problem?"

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For the next two days, Liu Xing continued to sell books in the bookstore.

After finishing his work in the bookstore, on the third day, he went to the Lantian community to learn the fascinating tutorials.

As for Wang Lanlan, she is still working on her new book "The Strange Case of Detective Wang Nanzhi Shooting the Carved Book Coffin".In order to write this novel, she continued to go out to collect materials. She went out early in the morning and went to Yufengshan Book Tomb for field investigation.

Therefore, Liu Xing was the only one left in the suite of Lantian Community, and he began to study Volume 94 of "Winning Advanced Course".

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At around eleven o'clock at noon, Liu Xing suddenly heard the door opening, thinking that it was Wang Lanlan who came back and was about to ask her to order takeaway.But when he got up and walked to the living room, he unexpectedly found that the person who opened the door was not Wang Lanlan, but an old man.

The old man was leaning on a black snake-shaped cane. He was not tall and had gray hair. His weather-beaten face was covered with wrinkles from the years, and his gentle eyes shone with kindness.

Liu Xing recognized at a glance that this old man was Wang Lanlan's grandfather, Wang Tairan.

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