Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 297 - 296: Book Rental Business

Chapter 297: Chapter 296: Book Rental Business

In the evening, eight sets of new computer desks and chairs were delivered to the Zhen Family. A total of sixteen sets of desks and chairs were arranged in two rows in the first floor hall, filling up the space slightly.

Zhen Yu glanced casually, then went upstairs.

The second floor was more spacious than the first floor, but because two bedrooms had been partitioned off, the area was slightly smaller.

How should she utilize this space? Zhen Yu had been pondering this question lately!

After all, Mrs. Zhen was only one person and could not take on additional work, otherwise, she would be overwhelmed.

So, besides selling sundries and beverages at the store, what kind of business required only a little of Mrs. Zhen’s time to just collect money?

As Zhen Yu was thinking, she walked to the desk unintentionally and sat down. She had been lacking inspiration for a long time, and casually pulled a book from the shelf, just about to flip through it... when suddenly a brilliant idea struck her!

Books! Renting out books! How had she not thought of this before! This business could have started when the game hall opened!

"Mom! Mom!" Zhen Yu shouted excitedly! At this moment, she wished she could just roll downstairs to find her mom!

"What’s wrong? What’s wrong?" The response came from her brother, with a panicked shout and the sound of him running upstairs.

"I have a new idea!" Zhen Yu intercepted her brother in the middle of the stairs and pulled him downstairs to find Mrs. Zhen.

Feeling his sister’s enthusiastic mood, Zhen Yan also became excited, "What new idea?"

"Starting a new business on the second floor! Renting books! Renting martial arts and romance novels, as well as classics!"

"Renting books? Renting books!" Zhen Yan reacted for a moment, then happily said: "Then I can have lots and lots of books to read?"

"Yes! Lots and lots of books! Also, movies and songs! These are all ways to make money!"

"What do you mean?" Zhen Yan couldn’t connect these two things to making money.

"You’ll know in a moment!" Zhen Yu teased.

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"What are you yelling about!" Mother chided the siblings as they arrived at the counter.

However, she turned a deaf ear to it, and directly addressed her mother: "Mom! Let’s go upstairs! We need to discuss something!"

"What’s the matter?! You’re all mysterious!" Mrs. Zhen muttered, but her body honestly followed them upstairs.

Standing in the second-floor living room, Zhen Yu pointed to the empty space in front of them and said to her mother: "Mom! Hire someone to set up several rows of bookshelves, let’s stock up on more books and rent them out!"

"Renting books? Can that make money!" Mrs. Zhen frowned.

"Yes!" Zhen Yu affirmed, then slightly teased: "Mom! You’ve been spoiled by the game hall, and you look down on this small business, don’t you!"

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Zhen knew her daughter was speaking the truth, but still refused to admit it.

Zhen Yu didn’t expose her mother, but seriously explained: "Mom, you must think that buying a book costs so little, so renting them must not bring in much money, right?"

Mrs. Zhen matter-of-factly said, "Isn’t that the case? You rent a book to someone, do you actually expect to earn as much as selling a book?"

"But have you thought about the costs of selling books? How much profit can you make from selling a book? Whereas renting books can continuously bring in rent income..."

"Uh!" Mrs. Zhen pondered a bit, "When you put it that way, it does make some sense..."

"Mom! The profit from renting books is not lower than selling books! In fact, if a book is rented out many times, it can far exceed the amount made from selling it!"

"Really?! No way?!" Mrs. Zhen was startled and somewhat incredulous.

"Really! Don’t believe me, just wait and see!" Zhen Yu said directly, "Mom! You’ve worked so hard! The book rental business still needs to be handled by you! But it’s easy to operate, you just need to rent them out and collect them back! The books collected each day can be left at the counter, and I will sort them back onto the shelves at night!"

"What if someone directly rents and doesn’t return it?" Mrs. Zhen hurriedly asked.

"Mom!" Zhen Yu said somewhat amused, "Of course, there will be a deposit! But renting books from us is different from renting from others! I’ve decided to use book rental as a breakthrough to promote our Sincere Membership Card, no! To be precise, it should be called the Zhencheng Card!"

"Zhencheng Card?" Zhen Yan who had been quietly sitting aside and listening, suddenly chimed in at this moment.

"Yes! As long as you have our Sincere Membership Card, it can be used simultaneously at Zhen Cheng Game Hall, Sincere Takeout, and Sincere Bookstore! One card for all!"

Mrs. Zhen was immediately not pleased, "Ah? The rent also has to be deducted from the card? Won’t that mess up the accounts?!"

"No! The rental fee must be paid in cash, but the rental deposit can be reserved in the Zhencheng Card! That is, if you want to start the rental service, I will have to freeze a portion of your funds in the card! The frozen funds can be used again only when you cancel the rental service!"

"That’s a good idea!" Mrs. Zhen beamed, "Alright! We can give this a try, let’s bring in fewer books at first! If it doesn’t work, I’ll just consider it as buying books for you two to read!"

"Then we’ll start preparing tomorrow, be sure to set up this stall before school starts!" Zhen Yu immediately said.

"No problem!" Mrs. Zhen said and was about to make a phone call, "I need to ask someone about the bookshelves..."

"Mom! Hold on a moment! I still have more to say!"

Mrs. Zhen turned back in surprise, "More?"

"Yes! More!" Zhen Yu nodded vigorously, "To cut costs, could you also ask your friends if anyone has connections for buying used books and CDs? The used books must be at least 80% new! Also,"

"That can be done, but what do you need used CDs for?" Mrs. Zhen interrupted her daughter, puzzled.

Zhen Yan’s eyes widened instantly; his sister had said she planned to make money from movies and songs before! He needed to listen closely to what her plan was!

"Mom! The used CDs must be playable! It’s okay whether they are movies or songs! I want to copy the movies and songs from the CDs onto each computer!"

"Why would you copy those things?" Mrs. Zhen still didn’t understand.

"For the customers to watch! Think about it, isn’t the game hall filled with only guys?!"

"Yes! Which girls come to play games?!" Mrs. Zhen naturally said.

However, Zhen Yan secretly thought to himself, "Does my sister only play King of Fighters or is she good at all games?! To think about it, I have never seen her play computer games, I wonder if she can actually play them..."

Zhen Yu mysteriously smiled, "What do you think, if the computers in the game hall could offer a lot of movies for customers to watch, wouldn’t the girls come and play? After all, those video halls on the streets are definitely not places where girls would go..."