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"Shopkeeper, do you have a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" character card?" The person who came was a middle-aged man dressed in wealth, a well-fitting suit, small colored leather shoes with feet, his hair combed back, and his pomade was shiny and shiny. People with status, but at this time they are addicted to Jika and cannot extricate themselves.

The shopkeeper was not surprised. He was familiar with the way and took out a cardboard box. The cardboard box was sealed on all sides, and there was a small hole on the top that could hold the size of a fist.

"There are only blind boxes, there is no special sale of character cards, one penny, draw?" asked the shopkeeper.

"Draw." The man took out a dime and gave it to the shopkeeper, "Draw ten times."

The man rubbed his hands together before drawing, prayed silently in his heart, and then drew the card solemnly.

The drawn cards are not direct character cards, but are sealed in a small paper bag.The small paper bag is painted with images of important figures, and ten large characters of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms blind box character cards.In order to prevent someone from opening the blind box in advance, a small seal was pasted on the back of the small paper bag, which read Wuxu Comic Book Cover.The little seal is very fragile and easily damaged.

In this way, it is possible to prevent someone from operating in the dark, seeing the character card in advance or dropping the character card.

The man was muttering words, and he could vaguely hear words like bless and Zhuge Liang.

But when he opened it, it turned out to be another Liu Bei. The man complained, "Why is it him again? I already have ten Liu Beis. Now I am short of Zhuge Liang."

The shopkeeper grinned, "I heard from the people at the newspaper office that when the character cards are published, there are proportions, respectively 40%, 30%, 15%, and 5%, and the characters are issued in batches. If not Buy it in time, and after that batch of characters will not be released again. There are also characters that account for 5%, which were scarce when they were released, and they are rare items, and it will be even more difficult to get after that.”

The man heaved a long sigh, "How can this Wuxu comic strip office be so good at doing business?"

The shopkeeper was still smiling, "I heard that the newspaper's partner is the general manager of Shen's Co., Ltd."

The man sighed: "That's no wonder."

In the next nine consecutive draws, in addition to the four Liu Bei, there are two or two Zhang Fei, one Xiao Qiao, one Cao Cao, and two Sun Quan.

"I have all these cards." The man said disappointedly.

"Forget it, Zhang Xiaoqiao is fine. Xiaoqiao is also a character with very few circulations. Although he is not as rare as Zhuge Liang, he is second only to him. Many of my colleagues lack this. I can exchange several copies of myself for one Xiaoqiao. If you don’t have a card, if you exchange it for an equally rare one, you can also exchange it for one.”

Before the man could step out with one foot, another man came in, "Have you got a new blind box here?"

"Here we come, here we come." The shopkeeper smiled when he saw the person coming.

"Give me five boxes, or you have never been drawn." A box of one hundred cards is one yuan.

"Okay." The man took the blind box and left without opening it in the shop.

The man in the suit who didn't leave in front looked dumbfounded, "Rich!"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "That's the young owner of our shop. They are not short of money. Recently, I have become obsessed with collecting cards. I buy them in whole boxes. I heard that his cards are the most complete at present. The Wuxu comic book is currently issued. He has all the character cards from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

"Of course, indeed." The classmates chattered around Shen Chengran. Ever since Shen Chengrun sent the newspaper, collection card book and character card to the school, the classmates became enthusiastic about this usually taciturn classmate.Everyone knows that his brother is willing to befriend him if he can get a character card.

"I don't even have the Monkey King Havoc in the Sky version of the card, can you get one for me?" The little boy took out a piece of ocean, "This is the pocket money my dad gave me yesterday, and I am willing to buy it from you."

A piece of pocket money is a lot of money, and the little boy's family background is very good.

Although Shen Chengran was very moved, he still refused.When his brother taught him how to do business, he told him that the number of character cards issued is different, most of them are issued in large quantities, only a few characters are issued in small quantities, that is to say, even if you buy a whole box of blind boxes in large quantities, it is not necessary. If he can get it, then he can get a rare card just for one dollar, wouldn't he be losing money, this deal is not worth it.So he shook his head and refused.

Shen Qingya also encountered this kind of problem, Shen Qingya was much simpler, she directly shirked that Shen Chengrun just knew someone from the newspaper, and it was not easy to get her own.

In the first month, the sales volume of Wuxu Lianhuan Pictorial reached a high sales volume of 2000 copies per day.Although the sales volume is not as high as that of those popular newspapers, but it has only been published for a month, and this sales volume is really rare.

Among them, the newspaper sales alone earned 180 yuan. 40 yuan is enough to pay the staff of the newspaper.

As for comic book authors and novel serial authors, 80 yuan is enough.The rest is the cost and so on, that is to say, the sales of the comic book for one month is enough to pay for the newspaper's capital.

The advertising revenue and the money earned by the truck collection is the net profit, which is about 300 yuan.

Shen Chengrun now has the ammonia factory, the alkali factory, the soap factory and the income of his own Shen's Co., Ltd., which is really nothing.But for Bai Mingyang, who finally saw the money back, the meaning is not very different.This has only just been released, and more people will know about it next month, and they may be able to recover their capital in less than four months.

The two staff members of the business department who were in charge of opening the letter took out a box of money in a short while, and registered it with a pen. I don't know how many pages have been turned.

Bai Mingyang saw it so itchy that he couldn't stand it, so he sat down and opened the letter by himself.In fact, you don't need to open it, you can know whether there is money in the envelope by the weight in your hand.

"This letter is from Ontario." Bai Mingyang opened the letter, and sure enough, more than two yuan that came with the letter fell out.Bai Mingyang read the letter enthusiastically, "This reader still wants the newspaper that was published before. I remember that we print more than one issue in each issue. You can look for it later, and mail it to him when it is complete. In addition, he is also looking for Work with us."

"What cooperation?" Shen Chengrun took it and found that the other party expressed his willingness to purchase collection card books and character cards.This is not the first person, and even many businessmen from neighboring provinces have heard the news and have come here in person.

Shen Chengrun wrote a reply letter to the other party, put it aside together with the newspaper the staff found, and waited for a while for the post office to come to collect it in person.

"This is from Zhejiang Province..."

"Oh, this letter is from Su City..."

"Oh, my God, this letter actually came from Tibet, and it must have been six months." Bai Mingyang said excitedly: "Chengrun, our newspaper is going to be popular!"

Shen Chengrun smiled, the biggest advantage of the comic strip is that it is different from the limitations of other newspapers, even people of different languages ​​will like it.

Shen Chengrun said with a smile: "Our newspaper is also a good start. To celebrate, how about coming to my house to eat hot pot on Sundays? You don't need to prepare anything, I will buy it."

"Okay." Bai Mingyang and Shao Hongjun were naturally happy.

Kangtu worked diligently and painstakingly for a month, and finally got his salary at the end of the month, which was 12 yuan.

Originally, his monthly salary was only five yuan, and the rest was his bonus for working overtime.

Except that the comic strips published by the daily newspaper must be drawn, and for the remaining comic strips, an extra five cents will be added each time, and the small portraits of the characters will be [-] cents.Although the minifigures seem to have the most money, they are actually the most difficult.

It's not that if they draw it, the owner will adopt it. It must be reviewed by the owner. If it is not refined or does not conform to the image of the character, it needs to be revised again and again.For those creative and conservative painters, it takes enough time to create two chapters of a comic story if they have enough time to create a small portrait of a character.

"12 Yuan Yang." Kang's wife was ecstatic with holding Dayang. She didn't know how long it had been since she saw so much money.

Kang's father and Kang's mother were also happy to see their son coming back with so much monthly salary, "Son, can you make so much money by painting now?"

Kangtu shook his head, "Of course I couldn't draw illustrations in the past, but now the owner of our newspaper draws comic strips for the first time. Everyone looks at it as a novelty, likes it very much, and the sales volume is high. Our newspaper urgently needs us to draw these comic strips, so we will draw them. Such a high price. By the way, the most popular collection card books and character cards are issued by our newspaper."

Although Kang's wife was delighted when she heard this, she couldn't help feeling worried at the same time, "What if I don't rush to ask for it in the future? Will I not be able to make so much money?"

Kangtu comforted his wife and said: "Don't worry, I have already thought of a new way to make money. In the past, my mind was imprisoned and I thought I could only draw illustrations, etc. Now I got inspiration from comic books and thought of a story. I plan to draw it as soon as I finish my work. It will be more than just the money.

The owner said that in the future, if the author of the comic strip is done independently, there will be no basic salary, but a commission of [-] cents for each painting, and [-] yuan for ten paintings a day. If the salary is really paid like this, I can draw forty or fifty paintings a day. But it's all money.

If the response is good and it is published, the manuscript fee will be paid. "

Kang Tu gets excited just thinking about it. Even if his story doesn't work out, aren't there classics like "Feng Shen Bang", "Blessing Lovers", "Legend of Yue Fei" and so on waiting for him to draw?

Kangtu's wife only felt that the future seemed to be full of infinite light, and she wept with joy for a while.

"Okay, don't cry, this is a good thing. I know you are worried about your parents. Since you asked for money last time, you have felt guilty in your heart, and you have never dared to go back to see the second elder. Go back and pay back the money, and the second is to see the two old people."

During these days, Kang's wife couldn't even sleep well. She was always worried that her parents would be scolded by her brothers and sisters-in-law, but she didn't dare to go back to visit her. What could she do even if she saw her with her own eyes?

She was very happy and wanted to go back, but if she paid back her natal family's money, most of the money would be lost in one fell swoop, and their lives were still tight.

Kang's wife looked at Kang's father and mother hesitantly.

Kang's father and Kang's mother hurriedly said: "It's okay, it will be fine next month, you should return the money quickly, and don't let your parents get angry because of you at home."

Kang's father and Kang's mother also knew that Kang's wife, brother and sister-in-law had looked down on their son a lot these years, so they wished that their son would pay back the money immediately, so that they could stand upright at the in-law's side from now on.

Kang's wife happily went out with Kang Tu, and bought meat, dates and other gifts on the way.

As soon as I walked to the door, I heard the sister-in-law in the yard pointing at Sang and Huai and scolding in a loud voice: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, don't you see where there is money at home? But if there is any extra penny, someone will take it to his daughter.

People are throwing out the water of their daughters getting married. Some people are good, they are treasures in the hands of married daughters!

That daughter is so good, she can't even eat for herself, and she can still take care of them. She is so old in vain, she can't tell the inside from the outside, and she doesn't know who will support her. "

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