rebirth of cataclysm

"Students, tomorrow is New Year's Day, and the school is on holiday. However, don't be too playful. Use the holiday time to review carefully. When you come back from New Year's Day, you will have exams and winter vacation..."

Today is the last day of 2017, Wednesday. In order to prevent the students from acting inappropriately during the holiday, the class teacher Ma Yi deliberately stayed with the students after school to give them some instructions.

What Teacher Ma said actually has little effect on the students. What everyone wants now is to get out of school as soon as possible. What do the students in the township like most? Of course it is vacation.

No matter how much Teacher Ma gave her instructions, there were only a few people who could do what she said.

Even Hu Mingchen couldn't study hard at home during the New Year's Day holiday. During this time, his family was very busy.

After nagging for more than ten minutes, Ma Yi finally let the classmates go. However, Hu Mingchen was left alone by him.

"Hu Mingchen, this semester, you have been a little sloppy in your studies. You have taken a lot of leave, and you have even been absent from classes. Now you are about to face the semester exam, can you still do well in the exam?" Ma Yi stood on the podium, looking down at Hu Mingchen under the podium.

asked.

This semester, Hu Mingchen’s home is both a movie theater and a building, so there are naturally a lot of things going on. Especially here in the movie theater, Hu Mingchen has to participate in many things. For example, when picking up movies in Daocheng, Hu Mingchen knows which movies are good and which are not.

, and this is something Hu Jianqiang doesn’t know. It’s impossible for people from other film companies to let him decide whether to take it or not after watching it, and they don’t have enough time.

At this time, communication was very backward, and unlike the era of mobile phones, you could ask for leave with just a phone call and a text message, so Hu Mingchen was absent from class because he was too late. Ma Yi did not reprimand Hu Mingchen much at that time, but when he was about to face the exam, he was

She moved out.

"Teacher Ma, I'm sorry for causing you trouble this semester." To Ma Yi's expectation, Hu Mingchen apologized to her first.

"It's nothing. Your family is in a difficult situation. The teacher understands this, so he doesn't care about some things with you. But you have to understand that you are different from other students. Most of the students in our class have finished elementary school.

At most, when you reach junior high school, your studies will end, but you have to continue to move forward, and you have to continue to learn upwards, so at this time you have to lay a good foundation. You are a child with ideas, but those ideas can only be down-to-earth.

will become a reality, do you understand?" Ma Yi said sincerely.

Hu Mingchen was moved in his heart and nodded repeatedly: "Teacher Ma, I understand, I know how to do it, and I will not be blinded by what I see. I have indeed slacked off a bit this semester, but I will work hard to make up for it. I will take the exam this holiday.

I am still confident that I can do well in the exam.”

"Well, you don't need a heavy hammer to play the drum. As long as you understand this, okay, go back early." Ma Yi was very satisfied with Hu Mingchen's answer, and from Hu Mingchen's expression, she also saw Hu Mingchen's seriousness and determination, not

Treat her casually.

After leaving school, the place where Hu Mingchen immediately dropped off was the Doug Cinema.

Although tomorrow is not a day to go to the theater, many places are on holiday for the New Year's Day, so the business of the cinema should be better than usual. Hu Mingchen is going to have another look and be prepared in advance.

When Hu Mingchen walked into the courtyard of the grain station warehouse, he saw that the cement stools under the wall next to him were full of people. When a line in the cinema came out, those people burst into laughter.

"Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" is playing in the cinema. This comedy was shown once yesterday and again today, but many people still bought tickets to watch it. This kind of nonsensical comedy is very popular among ordinary people from the middle and lower classes.

There are five people selling things at the stall under the awning over there. One sells jelly, one sells melon seeds and peanuts, another sells cigarettes and tea drinks, one sells sweet potatoes and fruits, and the last one sells snacks and popcorn.

There is no duplication of operations among these five companies. Is it because other people don’t want to come? The answer is not that these five companies were determined by Hu Mingchen through an auction.

When Hu Mingchen let them use it for free for a week, there were usually not many people on the street, so when he saw someone selling things here and the business was pretty good, many more ones popped up all of a sudden. It didn’t cost any money anyway, and this place was open from noon to evening

, there is basically an endless flow of people, especially after dark, when the rest of Dougal Street is dark, but the cinema is brightly lit.

In the past, people didn’t go out much when it got dark, but since the establishment of this cinema, men, women, and children like to hang out here after dinner or if they have nothing to do in the afternoon. Those who have money can watch movies, and those who have no money can listen to them.

Movies, or bragging and chatting, eating a bowl of jelly, and a cup of melon seeds.

Wherever there are people, there is business. No matter how many families come, Hu Mingchen will not refuse them all. Since the terrace and pergola are not enough, they are also allowed to operate under the wall.

A few days later, seeing that the time was almost up, Hu Mingchen summoned them together and told them clearly that from now on only merchants who rented sales tables could operate in the yard, and those five sales tables would be awarded to the one with the highest auction price.

way to rent it to them.

At first, those people were chirping and expressed a lot of opposition.

There are free ones available, but who wants to spend money? It’s not like his brain is broken.

Some people even said that if they had to spend money, they would rather sell it elsewhere than here, implying that they wanted to boycott it.

But in Hu Mingchen's view, in the face of interests, any resistance or harsh words are meaningless, and they are just chickens and dogs. Even if Hu Mingchen has not studied economics systematically, he will not understand such a simple truth.

It's impossible not to know.

Therefore, under Hu Mingchen's strong request, even those who threatened to boycott could only return to the negotiating table obediently in the end, even fearing that their competitors would snatch away the opportunity.

To be honest, if there was no such cinema, or if there were no people in this cinema, no one would be willing to ask them to set up a stall here even if it was free of charge. Some people do things like losing their heads, but there is no such thing as a loss-making business.

People are willing to do it.

On the other hand, even if the rent here is higher, or the rent is higher, as long as there is business and money to be made, it is still worthwhile. Even an illiterate person who can't even write his name knows this simple account.

In the end, Hu Mingchen's five stalls were rented for 200 yuan a month. This means that from these five small sheds, he can get an income of 2,400 yuan a year, which is almost the same as the money he paid to rent this warehouse.

It was worth more than half.

When there are lights, stools to sit on, and stalls, the cinema will have a surrounding market environment. This is a mutually reinforcing result.

"Uncle Third, how are you today?" Hu Mingchen pushed open the door and entered Hu Jianqiang's small ticket booth and asked.

In the past, money was tight, so Hu Jianqiang only had a set of old tables and chairs to sell tickets. Now that he is more affluent, in order to appear formal, he set up a small booth at the entrance on the right side of the cinema to sell tickets.

"It's the third show now, and two hundred, sixty-seventy movie tickets have been sold." As soon as Hu Mingchen walked into the yard, Hu Jianqiang saw him, so he took a few glances at the small book at hand, knowing that Hu Mingchen would definitely know it.

Are you asking about this situation?

In normal times, it is difficult to fill up the Duge Cinema, especially during the day, when everyone has to work, and after all, Duge Township is not a big place, and the consumption level is not that high. The attendance rate for a movie is 400%.

Fifty out of ten is pretty good.

But at night, the attendance rate will increase by 20 to 30%.

There is a phenomenon now. After work in the evening, not only people living on the street will go to watch movies, but also some young people from surrounding villages will meet to watch movies. There are even people from Fanger Town who will ride motorcycles.

Take a car or a tricycle to Duge Township to watch a movie.

Especially for those young people, where should they go to fall in love? The first choice is of course the Doug Cinema.

Although the number of people does not seem to be that large, due to the price, the profit is not large. More than 200 tickets cost almost 500 yuan.

As for the movie day, the business is even more different. Except for the first movie that starts at 10 o'clock in the morning, which is rarely full, the other five movies are basically full. Occasionally, one movie is not full.

, will also achieve an attendance rate of 890%.

In a month, in just four festival days, we can receive about 8,000 to 10,000 tickets. In addition, we usually sell more than 20,000 tickets in a month, so there is basically no problem.

At least in December, which is about to end, Hu Mingchen has already seen 21,000 yuan.

During this period, Hu Jianjun spent less than half the time repairing the house as he did helping in the movie theater.

The cinema has made money, and Hu Jianjun doesn't have to worry anymore. At least all the funds that Hu Mingchen withdrawn from him have been returned.

"That's not bad. There are eighty or ninety people watching a movie. Even if only fifty people watch it, it is still worthy of satisfaction." Hu Mingchen's request was not very ambitious.

"This year will be over soon. I still have about 10,000 yuan on my books. Do you want to make a settlement?" Hu Jianqiang asked.

"This is what you need. At least you have to have an idea of ​​how much you can earn...Uncle San, you can go get a thousand yuan later, just think of it as your year-end bonus." Hu Mingchen nodded in agreement.

, thought for a moment.

"Bonus? That's as much as one thousand yuan! This is too much. Do you want to discuss it with your parents first?" Hu Jianqiang was shocked when he heard that Hu Mingchen was going to give him a bonus of one thousand yuan.

Hu Mingchen had only negotiated a monthly salary of two hundred with Hu Jianqiang before, and there was no term or practice for year-end bonuses in the local area. A bonus equivalent to five months suddenly appeared in such a short period of time. Of course Hu Jianqiang would be surprised.

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