The Godfather of Almighty Entertainment

Chapter 1414 Really Amazing (Two in One)

Han Cheng is the store manager of a bookstore under Jingcheng Publishing House. It is not a small bookstore with a small door and one person watching the stalls. It is the store manager of a large bookstore with rows of bookshelves. It is almost the same if it is bigger. It can be compared with a university library. There are about ten librarians in the store. It is said that although the store is quite large, ten clerks are actually rich. After all, there are electronic anti-theft at the entrance of big stores or supermarkets these days The system does not require so many people to visit the store.

The reason why there are so many people is that this kind of store is prepared for various activities, such as the promotion of a new book by a well-known author, such as a book signing by a certain author, etc. They and this store exist for this kind of situation Otherwise, in fact, there are not many people visiting the book city these days, and this store cannot be supported by the usual book sales alone.

Today, Hancheng came to the bookstore early, and gave the store staff a meal of chicken blood, because today is physical work, and I am afraid that if I don’t give chicken blood, I will be exhausted. It is indeed physical work, 10:30 The book sale activity just started, and there was a long queue at the door at eight o'clock. Anyone who is not blind can tell that this is a physical effort.

"There are so many people today, it would be great if it was like this every day!" A female shop assistant looked at the long queue outside and said.

"You can think of a good thing. How many people are willing to go to the bookstore these days. If it weren't for Xu Duan, I'm afraid we wouldn't come if we begged him." A young clerk said.

"That's true." The female clerk nodded.

"Xu Duan is really amazing. Just write a book in three or two days and there are so many people queuing up to buy it! It's amazing!" A girl of eighteen or nineteen years old also sighed.

"It's probably only today, and it's all his fans who come to buy it. After tomorrow, there probably won't be many people." Xiaonian said.

"I guess so. After all, the book was only written in two or three days, and it was used to make up the numbers. Why can't he write seriously? If he writes seriously for a few months, why can't the sales be hundreds of thousands?" The female clerk said deeply.

"How can a person like him be willing to waste so long on one thing? He doesn't know how much it costs if he just makes an announcement. This book is probably meant to scold that John, otherwise he would not be willing to write it. Are books a waste of time?" said the little girl.

"It's true. It's too easy for someone like him to earn money. How can he sink down and write books? Besides, it's a science fiction genre, so it doesn't make much money." The female shop assistant nodded, and science fiction is indeed not a popular genre in China. That is to say, the Three-Body Problem has brought domestic sci-fi works into the public's field of vision. I have rarely even heard of any writer who became famous by writing sci-fi, let alone sales.

"It's not so bad, it's going to be a change of martial arts, even if he writes blindly, the sales are absolutely guaranteed, like our publishing house won the sales of his white-haired witch last time, and it has sold more than 100 million by now. The science fiction written by him is still incomparable." The young man said.

"Who says no? If the martial arts he writes has not been published on the Internet, the sales volume may reach 300 million!" said the little girl.

"Okay, okay, stop talking, I didn't see how many people are outside, hurry up and work!" Han Cheng interrupted the discussion of the shop assistants when he saw that the time was almost up.

Uh, as soon as Han Cheng spoke, the clerks looked back at the mountain of books with bitter expressions on their faces, can they not be bitter?A big store means heavy tasks. Generally small bookstores, how much they sell depends on the situation. There are so many people like them, and there are task indicators assigned, otherwise how could there be so many people outside?That's all advertised a long time ago, otherwise, who would have known they were selling new books here?right?This person is attracted, what is the sales?Doesn't that depend on them?If they move fast, the sales can keep up. If they sell a book every few minutes, what sales do they need, right?
"What are you dawdling about? Hurry up!" Han Cheng opened the door of the shop and let the person in while speaking.

As soon as the store door opened, people queuing outside rushed in.

Immediately, the bookstore became very busy, and the mountains of books brought in last night in the bookstore also began to decrease at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

Han Cheng was on the sidelines maintaining order while urging the clerk to pay the book buyers, looking around from time to time to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity.

I usually see quite a lot of shop assistants, but now I feel that there are not enough, and book fans or fans who pick out books every minute form a long queue again.

With so many people coming for just one person, how good it would be to buy some other books, Han Cheng murmured to himself while maintaining the queue order, but apparently Han Cheng also understood that this was wishful thinking, after all, more than half of the people in the queue were not rushed. Those who write books come here for the author of that book. It is simply unrealistic for such a person to expect him to buy other people's books.

You only need to look at the appearance of those people who buy books. When they rush to the bookshelf to get the book, they are excited and radiant, holding it in their hands as if they have snatched some treasure, and they are reluctant to open it. The companions who come here show off, so what should a scholar look like?right?Han Cheng thought to himself, it's right for scholars to cherish books, but that's not the way to cherish books.

Huh, these few seem to be really looking for the book, Han Cheng was muttering and watching to prevent anyone from being entrained, when he suddenly saw a few people standing in the line because the line was too long, opened the book and began to read , his eyes lit up immediately, as the store manager of a bookstore, Hancheng still loves to read books, and when he saw a common lover, he secretly admired, right, this is what a scholar should be like, books are treasures, But it's not a treasure to show off, books are for reading!

It's just a pity for Han Cheng, it's a pity that what the other party came to buy was a book that others put together in just three days.

I guess they will be very disappointed, right?Han Cheng muttered and looked at the few readers who were pushed forward by someone who was pushed forward by others in the queue, and sighed secretly: I guess it is unlikely that they will buy it. .

After sighing, Hancheng went to maintain order again. Instead of paying attention to those few people all the time, he walked back and forth from time to time and said to the people queuing up to buy books: "Let's line up and let's not mess up. They are all scholars and should be polite."

What he said caused several girls around to giggle, because no one would talk like that these days, but Han Cheng didn't care, because he was just pretending to be an employee to maintain order, so it was up to others to laugh or not. So what happened.

"Hey, do you want to buy it? Everyone is queuing up at the back." Just as Hancheng was maintaining order, a clerk suddenly patted the counter and said loudly.

"Ah, buy it." A stunned voice hurriedly said.

Han Cheng Wensheng took a peek from the end of the line, and saw one of the few scholars he admired. He was surprised and bought it. How could it be?Can real readers not see the merits and demerits of this book?This doesn't make sense, or is this book actually very good-looking?

Han Cheng was very puzzled, so he strolled over, walked up to a buddy in the line who was reading a book with his head down, and pretended to ask casually, "Is this book... good?"

Hearing the sound, the reading buddies looked up at Han Cheng and asked suspiciously, "Talk to me?"

"I just asked casually, is this book good?" Han Cheng asked again.

"It's beautiful, it's very beautiful!" The buddy said immediately after hearing the words: "It's produced by Xu Duan, it must be a high-quality product! Don't you know that you sell it yourself?"

"Ah, I know that. I'm just investigating what everyone thinks about this book." Han Cheng said immediately when he heard the words, he sells books, can he say that the book is not good?Besides, who are these people at the scene? They are all fans of this book, not fans. If you dare to say that the book is not good in front of them, why don't you just die?Believe it or not, the bookstore smashed it for you?
"It's so beautiful! Really, boss, let me tell you that you have copied it, this book is definitely a hit!" The buddy said immediately after hearing this.

"Ah, good." Han Cheng nodded when he heard the words, and didn't say anything more, but he was really puzzled in his heart, is it really so beautiful?can't you?Will a book written in three days look good?That's not scientific either.

After talking, Han Cheng walked away, but he was very skeptical in his heart, so he walked to the edge of the bookshelf, took a book and opened it, and decided to check the book by himself.

If Han Cheng is really a book lover, otherwise he would be suspicious for a long time if someone casually said something nice. Although he is the manager of a bookstore, he is still half a businessman after all. What a businessman does is Business is about the sales volume. As for the quality, the manufacturer is responsible for that. It has nothing to do with him as a dealer. As a result, he has to check the quality himself. This can only show one thing, he really loves it. Reading.

He picked up the book and opened it casually. To be honest, Han Cheng just took a look at it with the mental experience of trying it out, that is, he planned to read it at the beginning, and didn't plan to read it seriously at all. It was really a challenge for him to read a book every three days. I have never heard of it before. I wrote a book in three days. This book must be of good quality. How much does it challenge his imagination?
However, when he opened the book, Han Cheng plunged his head into it in an instant, and never came out again.

Because to be honest, general sci-fi is actually very divorced from reality, especially hard sci-fi. Many authors come up with how awesome this technology is, how many years ahead of the real world, and being brought by the protagonist or an alien. Yes, it has brought so many earth-shaking changes to the life of the protagonist. In the end, the protagonist uses aliens or this technology to face the real world. This brings a certain sense of refreshment and forms a selling point. It is basically the same as the routine of web articles, and it is not as refreshing as web articles, because authors of hard science fiction often fall into a dead end. Knowing the ranking of science and technology, or creating it by yourself, the description is often out of reality, so that readers can't feel what it has to do with themselves or the reality. Similarly, the coolness of its creation often makes readers feel too.

This is also an important reason why the genre of science fiction cannot develop in China, because the description is fake, and it is divorced from reality. If you have to stand at the high end of that particularly fake chain of contempt and despise human beings, what you will eventually bring can only be It is rare sales.

And the Three-Body Problem is just the opposite of those. The Three-Body Problem is introduced into the Three-Body Problem civilization bit by bit by some strange phenomena that happened around the protagonist in reality, until the whole Three-Body Problem world is displayed in front of the world. There is no such abrupt introduction of technological products at all. , and the initial opening has a certain suspenseful element, which is very attractive.

So almost after reading the first chapter, Han Cheng, the store manager who loves to read, was attracted into it and couldn't extricate himself. He stood there leaning on the bookshelf and started reading.

Until someone came over and asked him, "Dude, do you want to buy it or not? If you don't buy it, don't bring it with you. I've been waiting for a long time!"

Han Cheng was awakened from the world of books, and looked up blankly at a young man in his early twenties with a speechless expression on his face. Obviously, that buddy regarded Han Cheng as the kind of person who doesn't buy books in bookstores and reads them.

"Ah no...don't buy it." Han Cheng casually said in a daze.

"Give me the book if you don't buy it." The buddy directly stretched out his hand in front of Han Cheng and said.

"No... nothing?" Han Cheng looked around blankly.

"That's all." The clerk who had been idle whispered behind Han Cheng.

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and call to order the book, just say that this place is sold out and let the other side quickly order it!" Han Cheng said.

"Give me your book first!" The buddy in his early twenties was dissatisfied when he saw Han Cheng pretending to forget his existence, and stretched out his hand to snatch the book from Han Cheng's hand, and immediately gave Han Cheng a burst of distress. He really loves to read, and someone snatched such a beautiful book suddenly, it really feels like a treasure has been lost.

"Why don't you..." Han Cheng didn't want to sell the last book, because there was still a certain time lag from the publishing house to this one, and he was just reading it with enthusiasm. Suddenly the book was gone, and he felt empty in his heart. I'm in prison, I just want to discuss with that buddy and ask him to wait a while.

That buddy ran to the counter as soon as he heard the words, and he didn't let anyone scan the code when he went up. He took out the money and threw it on the counter and ran away. He was speechless for a while when he showed Han Cheng. Obviously that buddy is also a book lover, and he probably I also knew that the book was good, so I paid the money and left without giving him a chance to talk.

"Hurry up and tune in!" Han Cheng said after looking at the many young people who were still waiting in the store.

"I've already called the publishing house, and they said they'll be there in a while." The little girl shop assistant said.

"Tsk, why did I give it to him? I should take it off first and say I've already bought it!" Han Cheng said with a look of regret, looking at the direction in which the buddy who robbed him of the book was leaving.

"Shop Manager, didn't you say that the quality of the book is not good?" The little girl clerk who didn't sell books in the store at the moment was fine, and asked with a surprised look on his face.

"What the hell? Who said the quality is not good? Who said that?" Han Cheng hadn't spoken yet when he heard the words, and suddenly a few bored young people in the store who were waiting for the books to be delivered and gathered together to talk suddenly looked like grumpy old men. The appearance, that appearance seems to say that who dares to say that it is not good-looking, I will kill you.

"That's right, who said that? Stand up!"

When Han Cheng heard this, he looked at the little girl in a cold sweat, and said in his heart that you are really not afraid of death, you, and told the fans that they might not kill you, so he hurriedly said: "No one said no one, let's discuss that So-and-so's book, not Xu Duan's book, not next to that."

The irritable old man and the others seemed to calm down after hearing this.

"It's amazing." The little girl stuck out her tongue and said in amazement.

(End of this chapter)