Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 879

Amamiya Aiko was leaning against the bookshelf, her body was very relaxed, she looked at Mitarai Nanaya with a smile on her face, "You seem to have tanned a lot recently, is it hot in Jinling?"

"Well, it's quite hot, hotter than Tokyo. I heard from the real estate agent that Jinling is a famous stove in China. It's even better this year, and it's hotter than before. But, have I really turned black?" Mitarai Nanaya leaned over to look Looking at the mirror on the pillar, he touched his face, "It doesn't seem to have changed much, does it?"

"It's really dark." Amamiya Aiko stretched her arm next to Mitarai's arm, "Look."

Seeing the black and white contrast of the two arms, Mitarai nodded, "Well, it's a little darker, so you can see it through the comparison. How is the business of the bookstore this summer? I only found out after listening to Meiya. Such novels are popular."

"Not only among students, adults also like this kind of novel, but you rarely pay attention to it."

Amamiya Aiko and Mitarai Nanaya have been playing together since they were naked, and she knows all his preferences, including his preference for reading.

Since Mitarai Nanaya graduated from high school, she basically stopped reading the manga that she liked to read in the past, and read more reasoning, science fiction, and some pure literature.

Yugongjia Bookstore has two special areas, one is the reasoning area, and the other is the science fiction area.

Opening a bookstore in Neon, it seems not surprising that there is a reasoning section. Many bookstores focus on mystery novels, and some bookstores simply only sell mystery novels.

Science fiction works are not treated like mystery novels in Neon. Although there are quite a lot of science fiction works in Neon, the attitude of people in Neon towards science fiction is different from other places.

Neon's sci-fi works, citing some sci-fi fans, say that their sci-fi works are too soft, and the settings of many neon sci-fi works are separated from reality and completely independent.This also creates a situation where the audience does not even realize that they are watching sci-fi works when watching some sci-fi animations of Neon.

In Neon's bookstore, if there are science fiction works, they are basically mecha comics, and there are not many serious science fiction novels.

So there is a sci-fi section in Yugong's bookstore, and everyone knows who it is for.

"Liu Cixin's new book "The Wandering Earth" is already on the shelves. If you want to read it, I specially left a copy for you."

Mitarai smiled, "Okay."

In fact, he has already read Liu Cixin's "The Wandering Earth". Although there was no neon language version of "The Wandering Earth" before, the English version has long been released, and Deep Space has also generously translated the full text of "The Wandering Earth" into Deep Space. Novels are available online for free reading by netizens.

Followed Aiko to the second floor, and got the "The Wandering Earth" specially reserved for him. Mitarai Nanaya probably flipped through it. This is actually a collection of novels. Except for the novels of "The Wandering Earth", this collection of novels There are also several short stories by Liu Cixin, such as "Country Teacher" and "Take Her Eyes".

Mitarai Nanaya has read all of these short stories in English, but this is the first time I have seen the neon language version.

After handing the book to Mitarai Nanaya, Amamiya Aiko smiled and said, "Tell me, how are you doing in Jinling? You have mentioned the deep space park many times, and you have not been disappointed, right?"

"Not only did it not disappoint me, but it also surprised me a lot. No matter how people describe it, it is impossible to describe the attraction of the Deep Space Park."

"Is there a large scale there?" Aiko Amamiya asked.

"It's huge." Mitarai Nanaya nodded and said, "However, there are buildings like that all over the world, and there are many taller and grander buildings than that. What really attracts people is not their buildings, but their buildings. The contents of the building and the people inside. Can you imagine? You are walking among various sci-fi booths, and suddenly you see a handsome guy, it turns out to be Matthew McConaughey, and there is a Depp behind him? , When your excitement has not passed, you turned around and saw an old man with a white beard, his name is George Martin, the author of "A Song of Ice and Fire."

"JK Rowling may be walking behind you, Liu Cixin may also help people look at the booth, and even the ticket inspector in the movie hall may be hcg. And Fran Vinci who just won the Hugo Award, you may be able to See him on some console."

Hearing Mitarai Nanaya's words, Amamiya Aiko showed a yearning expression, "It's a pity that the store is too busy at this time, otherwise I really want to go and have a look with you."

Amamiya Aiko's father broke his leg while doing morning exercises some time ago, and her mother had to take care of her father, so Aiko had to be the leader of the bookstore. She really planned to go to Jinling with Mitarai Nanaya.

Mitarai Nanaya smiled and said, "It's okay, if we have time in winter, let's go again to see the annual meeting of Deep Space Corporation, which is more lively than the Oscars. The real estate agent told me that when the time comes He can help me get two front row concert tickets."

"Okay, then we'll go together then."

Aiko Amamiya held her chin, and the image of going to Jinling with Mitarai Nanaya in winter already appeared in her mind.

Seeing Aiko's expression, Mitarai Nanaya also smiled. In fact, Chen Tao not only promised to give him two tickets, but also invited him to be the president of the Neon Branch of Yuhua Reasoning Club.

After the two met for a few days, Chen Tao felt that Mitarai Nanaya was very suitable to be the president of the Neon Branch of Yuhua Reasoning Club.

Mitarai Nanaya is a native of Tokyo. She is still attending university in Tokyo and will graduate next year.

The most important thing is that Mitarai Nanaya has a strong language learning ability, is proficient in English and Neon, and has shown a strong interest in Chinese culture.

In addition, after getting in touch with him, Chen Tao believed that Mitarai Nanaya had a certain leadership ability, and his and Jin Yang's views on the script killing game also coincided with him.

Chen Tao and the others want to open a branch in Neon, mainly to promote games and their board game store. Since Mitarai Nanaya can see the development potential of these games, they can simply let him be the president of the branch.

Regarding Chen Tao's proposal, Mitarai Nanaya did not immediately agree.

There are two reasons why he didn't agree immediately. One is that he hasn't graduated yet, and he is worried that his studies will be affected by the branch affairs even if he hasn't finished his studies. How much is the investment here, do you really want to develop the branch here or just want to occupy a hole?
For his hesitation, Chen Tao also expressed his understanding, saying that he should consider it and give an answer after Chen Tao's next visit to Nihong.

In fact, from the bottom of her heart, Mitarai Nanaya still wanted to agree to Chen Tao. The president of the reasoning society branch is not a false job, not only has authority, but also has a salary.

Although Chen Tao's starting salary is very average, if Chen Tao and the others can really pay attention to the neon market, the potential of this position must be unlimited.

In addition, Chen Tao is Yu Dong's brother-in-law, and if he hooks up with Chen Tao, it is equivalent to hooking up with Yu Dong.

These are all considered from a practical point of view. If you think about it from an emotional point of view, he is more willing to explore the neon market with Chen Tao and the others than to join the company as a white-collar worker after graduation.

Thinking of this, Mitarai Nanaya suddenly asked Amamiya Aiko, "Is the toy store next to your house still open?"

Speaking of the toy store next to her, Aiko’s expression was a little lonely. That toy store has a history similar to that of Amamiya’s bookstore. Young people like Aiko and the others spent the most time in that toy store when they were young. up.

The toy store is run by an old couple, but since the beginning of the year, the owner's health has become unwell. In order to let the owner get more rest, the couple began to reduce the time of opening the store.

In the beginning, the door was closed for one day a week, and then the days of rest gradually increased, becoming one day off every three days, one day off every two days, and one day off every day.

In the end, they simply didn't open the door.

In fact, there are not many customers in the toy store now. People start to buy toys in those big stores, and they don't look down on the outdated toys in the toy store.

"I went to see Grandpa Naniya yesterday, and he told me that he might be moving away."

"where to?"

"Osaka, their son opened a law firm in Osaka, and his career is very successful. Before that, he had been persuading Grandpa Naniya and the others to go to Osaka, but they were worried about the toy store and were reluctant to go there. Grandpa Naniya is getting worse now. It was getting worse and worse, and I had to put down my work and rest, so I wanted to visit my son."

"What about their store?"

"I heard from Grandpa Naniya that his son means to rent out or sell the house, and he will put up a notice soon."

Hearing that the toy store next door was going to rent or sell it, Mitarai Nanaya was moved.

Like Aiko Amamiya, he often stayed in the toy store when he was a child, so he knew the layout of the toy store very well.

The toy store is very big. In addition to the front hall, there are several houses at the back. It is more suitable to make it into a board game store.

And the entrance of this place is quite good, not that kind of particularly prosperous area, but the traffic of people is not too small, there is a bookstore next to it, and there are many young people passing by.

There is a reasoning area in the bookstore. If they rent out the toy store to open a board game store, and then use the board game store to form the neon branch of Yuhua Reasoning Club, then they can still hold activities in the bookstore in the future.

"Will they rent out the rooms at the back together?" Mitarai Nanaya asked.

Aiko Amamiya shook her head and said, "I don't know, why are you so concerned about this matter?"

"Because I want to rent it out."

Aiko showed a surprised expression, "Do you want to rent the toy store? Why? Is it because you can't bear those toys?"

"Actually, it's not me who wants to rent, but a friend who wants to do some business. He may find a store in Tokyo."

"Oh, if you want to know, I'll give you a call and ask."

……

Aiko Amamiya quickly asked clearly that the toy store rented out all the rooms together, and she also asked about the rent, which was not expensive, and Grandpa Naniya said that if she wanted to rent it, she could get a discount.

After getting the news, Mitarai Nanaya didn't delay, borrowed Amamiya Aiko's computer and sent Chen Tao a private message.

It happened that Chen Tao was online at the moment, and the two chatted for a while.

Chen Tao is very interested in the toy store Mitarai Nanaya talked about, and even more interested in Mitarai Nanaya's positive attitude.

Mitarai Nanaya can help keep an eye on the facade, which shows that he is still willing to join the Yuhua Reasoning Club.

Chen Tao originally planned to go to Nihong sometime after school started, but now that he had this news, he simply made an appointment with Mitarai Nanaya to come in a few days.

After hanging up the phone, Mitarai Nanaya was in a good mood, and said to Amamiya Aiko with a smile, "Aiko, prepare to expand the reasoning area a little bit bigger."

……

Until Mitarai Nanaya left the bookstore, Amamiya Aiko didn't understand why he let himself expand the reasoning area.But Aiko Amamiya was able to confirm one thing, that is, she must ask the bookseller for more ghost novels from Deep Space Company tomorrow, and the batch of books that just came in was almost sold out.

Especially the "Life Book of Fairy Eleven", the bookstore was sold out before closing.

And she also wanted to ask when "Elf Eleven's Life Book 2" would come out. In the past few days, at least a dozen waves of customers had asked about it, and everyone was waiting for the second book to come out.

At this time in Nihong, there are countless bookstore owners who have the same idea as Amamiya Aiko.

This kind of ghost novels has been popular in Neon for a while, but after the comic book "The Life Book of Fairy Eleven" came out, this kind of novels became completely popular, and the demand for them fell short in a short period of time.

Of course, even for ghost novels, there are differences in style.

The most popular "The Life Book of Fairy Eleven" has an elegant style of writing and a big brain hole, readers will laugh when they read it.

But there is another category, which is also a ghost novel, but it focuses on hot (gou) blood, and the style of writing is very sour.

For example, the popularity of "Dance of the Dragon-Young Gun King", which is second only to "The Life Book of Fairy Eleven", the main content is that a couple of super monks gave birth to a son with ordinary talents, and the son is not yet an adult couple. The two died unexpectedly, and lost the protection of their parents. The boy was not only neglected by his relatives and friends, but also hunted down by his enemies.

During the many chases, the boy's blood was awakened, he fought back, and finally became a super master and returned to his hometown. His relatives and friends who had neglected him came to seek relationships one after another, but the male lead was beyond their reach.

Although this story is old-fashioned, many readers like this tune. From the beginning to the end, it is basically a conflict and then a slap in the face, and the cycle repeats.

Deep Space Corporation knows what readers like to read, and this type of novel is tailor-made for them.

The strategy of Deep Space Company is very correct. Chinese online novels can become popular in Neon so quickly. Of course, "The Life Book of Fairy Eleven" has a lot of credit, but these super cool articles also have a lot of credit.

Facts have proved that although Neon people can reject foreign literary works such as "To Live" and "Curse", they cannot reject such cool novels as "Dance of the Dragon-Young Gun King".

(End of this chapter)