Chapter 37 Book Signing Party
Shanghai National Bookstore.
Zhou Guomin opened the store door at eight o'clock in the morning as usual.
This time he learned from the experience last time and ordered 300 copies of Chen Linfeng's new novel in advance.
This number of books is quite heavy. It took Lao Zhou more than twenty minutes to put the books together.
He picked out three books and placed them on the most conspicuous shelf at the entrance of the store.
It was still early, so Lao Zhou made a pot of tea, put it on the counter to cool down, and started reading Chen Linfeng's new novel.
After reading for a while, Lao Zhou put down the book with a sigh, took a sip of tea, and his lips and teeth were filled with fragrance.
“It’s this flavor that always makes people feel more and more as they read. It’s novel, tense, and exciting. I’m not wrong about the person. I will read more books by this little writer in the future.”
Actually, there is no need to do this this time. Last time, the first printing was hundreds of thousands, but this time, half a million copies were printed, which was enough for the first wave of sales.
At this time, people began to enter the bookstore one after another. They should be migrant workers who got up early to go to work. Some office workers who like to read books would buy books on the way to work.
Zhang Yuan has been paying attention to the news about Chen Linfeng's new book, and today he came to the bookstore to buy a book.
The owner of National Bookstore is a book lover and will recommend books according to his own taste. There are many people who have the same taste as him, and Zhang Yuan is one of them.
Last time, when all the surrounding bookstores were out of stock, this place was the only one that always had stock, which made it somewhat famous. Now when Zhang Yuan came over, there were already people choosing books in the store.
“Boss, has Chen Linfeng’s new book arrived?”
"Here we are, it's on the front shelf, isn't it?"
Zhang Yuan flipped through it, a little curious, why there are illustrations this time, not to mention, the paintings are quite beautiful.
He looked at the bookstore owner and asked, "Boss, have you read the new book? How is it written?"
Lao Zhou gave him a thumbs up, "No better than the first one. Worse, if you read it with illustrations, it will make you feel better.”
Lao Zhou then talked endlessly about the good things about this new novel, and it was about to involve spoilers.
"Stop, boss, please stop talking. I'll finish reading it first, and we'll talk about the plot later."
He no longer hesitated and paid directly.
Zhang Yuan’s company is in Huangpu District. When I drove past Sanlian Bookstore, I found that there were a lot of people crowded here.
He couldn't drive fast, so he could only move forward slowly.
Taking advantage of the time, Zhang Yuan looked curiously at the crowd and found a huge promotional poster hanging above the main entrance of the bookstore:
[Book signing event by famous young writer Chen Linfeng]
Oh, it’s a book signing event.
Huh?
Chen Linfeng?
Book signing?
Zhang Yuan couldn't sit still. He now considers himself a die-hard fan of Chen Linfeng's books, and he was excited to have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the author.
After thinking for a long time, Zhang Yuan took out his mobile phone and called the company's landline. After a while, the call was answered.
"Hey, is it Chen Yu?"
"No, I'm Liu Yangyang," but a female voice answered, "Little Fatty asked for leave today. He said something happened at home, no. Come to work.”
“Ahem, it’s Yangyang,”
The reason he had thought up could no longer be used. Zhang Yuan coughed a few more times and lowered his voice, "I don't feel very well today and I have to ask for leave."
Liu Yangyang asked worriedly, "Are you okay? Is it serious?”
“It’s nothing serious, I think I just have a cold. I think it will be fine tomorrow. Please report the situation to the leader for me and ask for leave.”
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Yuan was puzzled. Why did Chen Xiaopang also ask for leave?
Without thinking much, he found a place to park his car nearby and hurriedly rushed into the crowd.
It turns out that in order to participate in the book signing event, you need to buy a book at Sanlian Bookstore, so Zhang Yuan could only buy another book.
Fortunately, there is a special sales point outside the store, so he no longer has to run into the bookstore to buy books.
After buying the book and standing at the back of the long queue, Zhang Yuan looked around boredly, only to find a familiar figure in the queue in front of him.
Zhang Yuan rubbed his eyes,
"Chen Yu?" Chen Xiaopang trembled when he heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw that it was his colleague Zhang Yuan. Shi Zheng looked at himself dumbfounded.
He said "Sorry" to the people lining up behind him and stood in front of Zhang Yuan.
"Why didn't you go to work and were already late? I told you in advance that I asked for leave."
"Okay, I said you have something to do at home today. It turns out Is that what it is? Everyone has learned to deceive the company.”
Chen Xiaopang felt a little guilty and muttered, “Buying books is a thing, how can it be called cheating?”
"How do you know there are book signings here at Sanlian Bookstore?" Zhang Yuan wanted to know this information now.
"I have seen it in the newspaper and there is news on the Internet, you don't know?"
Zhang Yuan is on vacation in his hometown these days and did not pay attention to the news, so he can only blame Chen Yu ,
“You didn’t even tell me, you came here to participate in the event alone, it’s shameful.”
After Chen Xiaopang panicked, he thought about it and glanced at Zhang Yuan sideways. The book in hand, "You also asked for leave and didn't go to work, so you came here to buy books. The eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother."
Zhang Yuan had no expression on his face, pretending he didn't hear anything, and let the topic go,
"Have you got the book and read it? I heard..."
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< br>Chen Linfeng looked at the crowded scene in front of him and was a little dumbfounded.
Unfortunately, I was worried that the autograph signing would be unpopular, and it would be embarrassing if no one attended the event. Now that there are so many people here, when do I have to sign in?
I had no choice but to bite the bullet and sign.
After signing a book written by a fat man, Chen Linfeng found that the book fan behind him had taken two books. He looked at them with some surprise. These days, there are sayings about personal use and preaching?
After Chen Linfeng signed a book, he found that the man turned around to leave, and asked doubtfully, "Don't you need to sign that book?"
Zhang Yuan was a little embarrassed and said, " I bought this book from another bookstore."
Chen Linfeng smiled and said, "It's okay, you are supporting me anyway, so I will sign it for you."
After saying that, he covered his mouth and whispered, "Just don't let the people at Sanlian Bookstore know about it. You still have to give face to the activities that people put in so much effort."
Zhang Yuan was a little surprised when Chen Linfeng gave him this opportunity. First impression.
The author I like is so approachable and even a little narrow-minded.
As expected of the author I like, he excitedly handed over the book in his arms.
“Do you want to write anything?”
"Let's just write it to Liu Yangyang."
I asked someone to help me ask for leave, so let's use this book as a thank you gift.
"Is it a girl's name?"
After receiving a positive answer, Chen Linfeng wrote on the title page "I wish sister Liu Yangyang will always be young and beautiful", and then signed himself name.
Zhang Yuanle walked out of the team excitedly, feeling that the sun was shining brightly today and it was another beautiful day.
The book signing event lasted the entire morning, and would continue at another location in the afternoon. After Shanghai, there were other cities as well. Thinking of this, Chen Linfeng's eyes darkened.
Sun Fengmei saw that Chen Linfeng looked unhappy and asked with concern, "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Why don't you contact the bookstore and let's take a rest before going?"
"Forget it, it's just that My hands are a bit sore, so I won’t dare to schedule so many activities next time. This time it’s really a big deal.”
Sister Mei actually arranged to only attend one autograph session a day, but Chen Linfeng wanted to finish it quickly. , changed the itinerary, resulting in a significant increase in the intensity of activities.
In fact, it is because he does not have a very intuitive concept of his current popularity in the country.
Since the spread of Journey to the West, Chen Linfeng has begun to take on a national identity in China.
More and more people are connecting the beautiful, kind and rebellious Nezha on the screen with the talented young writer promoted in newspapers.
One plus one can be far greater than two.
Not only does he underestimate his own popularity, people in this era are also very interested in joining in the fun.
The autograph signing events that Chen Linfeng had witnessed in his previous life were all very deserted. It would have been good if there were dozens of people, but the queues like this could not be reached at a glance.
The combination of these two reasons led to this misjudgment.
After staying in Shanghai for a total of two days, I will go to Guangzhou for a book signing.
(End of this chapter)