28: Xingwang Supermarket
Time passed slowly, and nearly two months passed in a blink of an eye.
During this period, Qin He, in addition to raising leg injuries, writing novels and magazine manuscripts, spent most of his time running back and forth between Hu Xingwang and the county town.
In order to hurry up, Qin He spent money to buy a 60% or 70% new second-hand Jialing for Hu Xingwang to run back and forth.
The biggest difficulty in opening a supermarket in a small town is not the place, but the source of goods.
At present, various small shopping malls in the town are too scattered, and the purchase places are also messy, and most of them are even copycat goods.
In small towns, many formal brands do not even have an agent wholesaler. In order to find a source of goods, Qin He and Hu Xingwang ran in the county town for more than half a month before finally finding a fairly authentic wholesaler.
In this era, and in this small town, don’t think about the entry fee that those brands pay to you.
In order to get this supermarket done, Qin He and his two suffered countless hardships in the past two months, and the sadness was difficult for ordinary people to understand. In the end, in order to raise money, Qin He and Lao Cui also withdrew 10,000 yuan in advance for royalties.
Qin He finally spent more than 30,000 yuan and owed the wholesaler more than 10,000 yuan in payment for goods. In the end, a supermarket with less than 100 square meters was successfully opened.
The name of the supermarket is Xingwang Supermarket.
Qin He and Hu Xingwang signed a contract, and each person had 50% of their shares. Hu Xingwang did not agree at first. After all, all the money was paid by Qin He, but Qin He finally made this decision.
Although the supermarket is not big, this supermarket is the first regular store in this town. Everything in it is regular goods, including cigarettes and wine. No matter what era it was, selling fake cigarettes and fake wines at the convenience store would make a lot of money, but Xingwang Supermarket was all real goods.
In small towns, most people do business with acquaintances, and it seems that only acquaintances will not be deceived. Especially in the 1990s, there were not many businesses doing business and operating honestly.
Although the supermarket is only about 100 square meters, in addition to the boss Hu Xingwang, Qin He also hired two sweet-looking girls in his teenage years, all of which were uniformly dressed and required service first.
The supermarket is bright and bright, and the decoration looks very high-end, which is completely different from the black look of other convenience stores.
The most important thing is that although the supermarket is not large in size, the varieties inside are quite complete, and the price is a little more expensive than the convenience store outside because it is genuine.
On the day of opening, Qin He opened with two firecrackers and two flower baskets.
Hu Xingwang was wearing a suit and looked like a boss, smiling like a child. Qin He taught him many tips for doing business.
When doing business in the town, the most important way of dealing with people is to deal with people, but Qin He himself is not very good at doing this, he can only give advice.
But Qin He did not expect that Hu Xingwang was basically self-taught in this regard. In addition, he was a cheerful person and soon established a relationship with various channels, as if he was born to do business.
But Qin He still talked to Hu Xingwang about a lot of dark side of society. After all, Hu Xingwang has no experience, and Qin He doesn't want him to fall.
In this era, it was indeed a virgin land. Xingwang Supermarket had no competitors in this small town.
Half a month after opening, the business was pretty good, but it didn't look as popular as I imagined. After all, the consumption capacity in this era is limited.
As the reputation fermented, Xingwang Supermarket's business gradually stabilized, and there were also a group of old customers who bought cigarettes and alcohol.
Qin He now relies on the manuscript fees of Zhiyin Magazine, the monthly manuscript fee exceeds 10,000 yuan. Reader Magazine also issued a manuscript fee, which was only more than 1,200 yuan. Qin He finally chose to give up submissions from Reader Magazine, which was a waste of time.
What he needs now is not fame, but money and time. The story club magazine finally sent a recruitment letter, with the manuscript fee of more than 4,600, and every thousand words should be about 100.
There is also a small magazine that received the manuscript and was finally hired, and paid more than 700 manuscript fees, but Qin He did not contribute any further.
In fact, except for the initial expenses of more than 30,000 yuan in supermarkets, Qinhe’s private expenses are not large, and the monthly royalties are more than 10,000 yuan, which is enough.
In early April, Qin He's first three-body novel was finally finished. Qin He felt that handwriting was too time-consuming. After the first part was finished, Qin He began to try to contact Lao Cui from Zhiyin Magazine to ask about the publication.
Lao Cui's reply surprised Qin He. Originally, Qin He thought it was difficult to publish a book, but Lao Cui's reply to him was that it was easy, and asked Qin He whether he wanted to publish privately or in cooperation with a magazine.
If you just have fun, then just find a cooperative printing factory to get it done. It’s okay to spend a few thousand yuan, print hundreds of copies by yourself and sell them secretly by yourself. Anyway, the investigation is not strict in this era.
If you want to play regular things, then do it according to the regular things. Private publishing means that you pay privately to buy a publishing issue number, which is usually printed with hundreds or thousands of copies. Anyway, you can solve the sales yourself and spend tens of thousands of dollars to solve the problem.
If you publish in cooperation with magazines, you will pay the manuscript fee according to sales, and the magazine will promote your books to major bookstores or recommend them to booksellers. In this era, paper books are absolutely mainstream, and each bookstore has an amazing monthly sales volume. Of course, there are more pirated books.
If you work with a publishing house, you can then use the quality and sales situation to view the quality and sales. You can then use the second brush and the third brush to publish.
Of course, the copyright of this kind of book can be signed with the publisher, usually five or ten years.
Qin He thought about it and finally chose to cooperate with the magazine. Qin He has been working with Zhiyin Magazine very happily in the past few months. Basically, he has published several articles in each issue. The author Li Yuncong's name is already well-known in the magazine circle.
However, the author of the book published by Qin He this time decided to write Lin Yiqing's name.
Because only in this way can everyone recognize Lin Yiqing as a great writer and his task is considered to be completed.
The first part of the Three-Body Problem is more than 200,000 words. Because it is a science fiction novel, Qin He is worried that it will be difficult to publish.
However, Lao Cui has been in this circle for so many years and has a good relationship with Qin He in the past few months. When he learned that Qin He was going to publish a book, he didn't even ask, so he said he could help solve it!
In fact, Lao Cui was a little selfish. The manuscripts written by Qin He during this period were strongly reacted among readers. The magazine leaders knew that he wanted him to cooperate with Qin He. Originally, Lao Cui thought Qin He would write a novel in a long and melodious style. This kind of book sold very well in this era, and he would make a fortune by himself.
Finally, after Lao Cui got the manuscript, he realized that it was actually a science fiction novel, and the style of the book had nothing to do with the soulmate. Lao Cui read a few chapters and felt that his head was overwhelmed.
Lao Cui has been in the magazine circle for many years and comes into contact with articles similar to Zhiyin every day. He really has no mood to read science fiction novels. After reading a few chapters, he can't feel G-spot at all. He once wondered if this book was written by Teacher Li Yuncong.
Fortunately, he still delayed his friend and got the matter done for Qin He. He also set up a book number for Qin He in a publishing house under Zhiyin, signed a contract with Qin He, and finally decided to print 3,000 copies of the first edition, which was due to Teacher Li Yuncong's face.
Qin He is also very grateful to Lao Cui. He has also made accurate time to submit manuscripts to Zhiyin Magazine, and the two of them are quite happy to work together.
By early June, Xingwang Supermarket was gradually on track, and Qin He's leg injury was 80% healed. As for the other 20%, it was completely disabled. Qin He always limped when walking. Although he didn't look closely, he knew that Qin He was a cripple man when he looked carefully.
However, Qin He also recognized the fact that the cripple man was short of time and he really didn't have much time to waste.
The first novel of the Three-Body Problem was successfully published, but the three thousand volumes were finally arranged by Lao Cui. The publisher also sold the Three-Body Problem book with other books to booksellers and bookstores. In the end, two thousand copies were sold in one month.
As for the reaction, there was not even a single bubble. Qin He was almost exploding when he saw this situation. He had been reborn in this world for seven months, and one-fifth of his time had passed, and he got this result.
Qin He finally decided to buy a computer and printer. He decided to speed up the writing. If the three-body system is not popular, then he would write down the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. If it doesn’t work, he would copy one or two classic books by himself. He must let Lin Yiqing complete the task of a great writer within the task time!
Qin He and Hu Xingwang finally took three days to go to the city to get it done. Finally, they installed the computer in a rental house in the town. The main Hujia Village has not yet been powered on. I heard that the electricity will be powered on at the end of the year, but Qin He can't wait.
It was early July when I finally got the computer done.
Chapter completed!