In the early morning, in Shangjing City, there was a bookstore covering a large area.

Zhang Weijian parked the e-mule in front of the store, then took out the key to unlock the door and opened the rolling shutter door together with a store clerk who had just arrived.

Zhang Weijian is just over forty this year. He has long flowing hair, black-rimmed glasses and a big beard, and is full of literary and artistic atmosphere.

Others also call him Zhang Huzi, and he is the owner of this private bookstore.

After opening the door, there was nothing to pack in the books in the store. Zhang Huzi walked to the side of the store to an area filled with various physical records.

The bookstore also functions as a video store, selling a variety of physical records.

In fact, this bookstore was originally a pure video store, specializing in selling various records, and was later converted into a bookstore.

However, with the advent of the Internet era, the physical record industry has become increasingly declining. Compared with its peak more than ten years ago, sales can be said to have dropped off a cliff.

You can listen to the latest music at your fingertips online, and just buy a digital album that is cheaper and does not take up space. The market for expensive physical records has been shrinking again and again.

Zhang Huzi still remembers that fifteen years ago there were more than 3,000 large and small video stores in Beijing, but today, only 20 are still open.

No one buys it!

Zhang Huzhu himself is a senior music lover, and the store is his own and does not require rent, so he was able to keep it.

Even so, he had to convert most of the area into a bookstore to sell books and textbooks. This small area of ​​the video store did not expect to make money, it was just a sentimental place.

Pulling back his divergent thoughts, Chang Beard remembered that a batch of new records had been delivered before get off work last night, and he was going to put them on the shelves this morning.

New products arrive in the store from time to time, but most of them have mediocre sales, and the number sold is not as good as the classic records from more than ten years ago.

Zhang Huzhu was also a little curious as to which rock-hard singer released a physical record.

Opening the tight packaging, neat records are inside.

Zhang Huzi picked up one, and the moment he picked it up, he could feel it from the texture. This record is definitely one of those well-made ones.

However, Zhang Huzi was even less optimistic about it - the better the production, the more losses he would suffer.

""One Leaf Knows Autumn"?"

Zhang Huzhu curiously read out the title of the album, looked at the playlist at the back, and immediately understood.

He naturally knows the recent popular singer Ye Zhiqiu. The song "Ordinary Road" has always been in his collection of playlists.

Zhang Huzi thought for a moment and took out one.

Zhang Huzi laughed at himself, saying that he spent 180 yuan before opening the door.

His store had 100 copies of the album "One Leaf Knows Autumn". Zhang Huzi took out five and placed them in the most conspicuous position in the entrance area of ​​the video store. The others were put into the warehouse first.

There was also a roll-up promotional display stand that came with it. The content was an enlarged version of the album cover of "One Leaf Knows Autumn", which was also opened and put aside.

In the past, you had to pay for placing a record in a better location. But now not many people care about this.

According to Zhang Huzhu’s estimate, it would be good if the 100 photos in the store could be digested.

After finishing these things, Zhang Hushi returned to the front desk of the bookstore area, carefully unpacked the record in his hand, and put the CD into the player.

The melodious song of "The Ordinary Road" sounded...

Zhang Huzi nodded with satisfaction. The sound quality of the lossless version was just different. The 180 yuan was well spent.

...

At 9:50 in the morning, outside a certain university campus, four girls hurried to the bus.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry." Cai Cai was the first to get on the bus, urging her three roommates.

The sporty girl stepped forward in a vigorous step, followed closely by the other two.

There were no seats in the car, but fortunately the bookstore they were going to was not far away. The four of them held the armrests and talked quietly.

"I'm so tired! Cai Cai, I didn't see you running so fast in the school physical test."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Wouldn't it be better to buy it in the afternoon?"

Cai Cai chuckled and said matter-of-factly: "Of course it's different."

"Ye Zhiqiu invited us to watch the concert live. Of course we should support it when the record comes out. It's like returning the tickets we had at that time."

At this moment, Ye Zhiqiu's loyal fan Cai Cai and her three roommates were preparing to go buy physical records.

Several people had already checked it in advance, but there weren't many selling points. Fortunately, one of them was a bookstore not far from the school.

After three stops, several people got off the car and quickly found the target store.

"There! Bustling Bookstore, it was said online that there is a small video store inside, owned by the same owner."

Several people hurriedly ran to the bookstore and were shocked by the scene inside as soon as they opened the door.

There was a long queue of more than twenty people at the front desk of the bookstore, which really matched the storefront.

Could it be that some new guidance book has been published in primary school?

But it doesn’t look like most of the people in line are young people not much older than me.

Cai Cai was curious and subconsciously glanced at the hands of the people in line, her eyes startled.

The boxes held in these people's hands were all the same square boxes, and the pictures on them were very familiar to them.

All of these people are just like me, coming to buy the hardcover physical record of "One Leaf Knows Autumn"!

Cai Cai suddenly realized that the other three roommates had obviously noticed it. They looked at each other and hurriedly ran towards the video store not far away.

As soon as he entered the door, the sharp-eyed Cai Cai saw the promotional display stand for "One Leaf Knows Autumn" and a lonely record next to it.

It seemed that there was someone next to him who was also targeting it. Cai Cai, with quick eyes and quick hands, reached out and grabbed it in his hand.

"..." The young man on the side who didn't grab it was speechless and didn't care. He shouted to the boss at the front desk.

"Zhang Huzhu, "One Leaf Knows Autumn" is out of stock, restocking!"

The young man is a music lover and occasionally comes here to buy physical records. He knows Zhang Huzi.

On the other side, Zhang Hu, who was busy at the front desk, yelled.

"No more! That's the last one!"

As soon as these words came out, the young man was dumbfounded, and Cai Cai was also stunned, and quickly held the record in his arms tightly as if it were a treasure.

Several people who came in one after another heard this and shouted out.

"Isn't it? It's gone so soon?"

"I ran out during my break from work. It was a waste of time!"

"Zhang Huzi, please buy more goods!"

"What the hell, are physical records so popular now?"

“When will the stock be replenished?”

The customers in the store were noisy, and Zhang Huzi was in a trance for a while, thinking that he had returned to the scene in the store more than ten years ago.

Zhang Huzi said helplessly: "Don't worry, everyone, we will contact you today to restock."

"You can pay attention to the bookstore's official account. When the goods arrive, a notification will be sent there, so everyone can come back to buy at that time."

Only then did all the customers stop, and they scanned the codes before leaving the store unwillingly.
Chapter completed!