Start with the script killing shop

Babao Zhai, a well-known old restaurant in Peiping, is the top one in all major review software. You can find overwhelming reviews of SoftGuard, restaurant exploration and food reviews with just a quick search.

To a certain extent, the publicity philosophy of the owner of this restaurant is somewhat similar to that of Yan Huaiyou.

I don’t care about anything else for now, let’s fill up the ads first and then talk about it.

Store manager Xu had a lot of business, and Qin Can had already arrived by the time Jiang Qi and others took a taxi to the entrance of Babaozhai. It was meal time, and Jiang Qi could smell the food inside while standing at the door.

As a well-known old restaurant with mixed reviews but full of advertisements, Babao Zhai's business is also good. After Jiang Qi followed the waiter in, he looked around and found that the first floor was almost full, and only a few tables with reservation signs were empty. One of the tables was reserved by Yan Huaiyou.

Everyone is an outsider. Although Qin Can went to university in Peking, because of his major and wallet, he didn’t eat at any of the five most famous restaurants in Peking—Babaozhai, Tongdeju, Ruyifang, Shunhelou and Yongheju. Yes, if I insist on making a relationship, I just go to the self-service barbecue restaurant opposite Yongheju.

Jiang Qi has never been to Peiping at all. Manager Xu has been but his wallet doesn’t allow it. Yan Huaiyou’s wallet allows him to eat in five restaurants, even Fenyuan, the legendary No. 1 private restaurant in Peiping, but that’s all It happened when he was in elementary school and junior high school - at that time, Fenyuan was not as expensive as it is now.

On the waiter's recommendation, Yan Huaiyou ordered roast duck, tomato sauce prawns, sweet and sour pork ribs, oyster sauce lettuce and seasonal vegetable scallop soup.

The duck chosen for the roast duck was a little on the fatter side, but the skills of the roast duck master and the duck slicer were very good, so it was somewhat saved. After returning to school during the National Day, Qin Can returned to the level of weight-loss diet with Wowotou in his hands and no drop of oil in the dish. He wished he could eat a duck in one bite. However, considering that he still wanted his life, Qin Can could only bear the pain and only eat two bites.

The prawns in tomato sauce taste pretty good to Jiang Qi. He is not a food connoisseur and does not have high requirements for the taste of food. The tomato sauce prawns are sour and sweet, and are coated in a beautiful tomato-colored sauce. Most everyone takes a few bites of one, and soon the plate of tomato sauce prawns is empty.

If I had to find any fault, it would be that the sauce was a bit too thick, so thick that Jiang Qi could hardly taste the shrimp flavor.

The same goes for the sweet and sour pork ribs, which are delicious but the sauce tastes a bit heavy.

The oyster sauce lettuce and seasonal vegetable scallop soup were also good. In the end, the food on the table was cleared by four people. Qin Can, who came out to improve the food, ate the same as if he had just finished a work meal.

"The food at Babao Zhai is quite delicious." Qin Can looked at the reviews on his mobile phone and said with some confusion, "Why are there so many bad reviews in the reviews, and some people accuse this restaurant of buying its ratings and good reviews. "

Yan Huaiyou silently showed Qin Can the bill.

The four-digit bill shocked Qin Can.

"Damn it." Qin Can couldn't help but cursed, "It's so expensive."

Qin Can looked at the soup on the empty plate on the table and suddenly felt that today's meal was not that delicious.

Jiang Qi's first reaction after seeing the bill was, Damn, opening a restaurant is really profitable.

It's strange why his first reaction was this.

After dinner, Qin Can had to take the subway back to school. The door of her dormitory building is locked at 10 o'clock every night. After that time, you can only get in by climbing over the wall.

Although it is easy for dancers to climb over the wall, Qin Can adheres to the concept of never climbing over the wall if he can go through the main entrance. After confirming the exhibition hotel with Jiang Qi, Qin Can went back.

The 17th is a Friday. Qin Can has classes in the afternoon but doesn't have to practice dance in the evening. She can come to the exhibition on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday to help Jiang Qi find cheap and suitable boxed books.

"Do you really not need Store Manager Xu to help you grab a public parking space? There are many major publishers launching new books at this year's autumn fair. If you don't grab a public parking space, you won't have the right of first refusal. I'm afraid it will be difficult to grab good copies from other stores. ." Yan Huaiyou confirmed with Jiang Qi for the last time after returning.

He really hoped that Jiang Qi could buy some good books at this autumn exhibition and go back.

Although the two stores are close to each other, there is no competitive relationship. On the contrary, Galaxy Script Store, a magical script store that has its own traffic and has developed many cute new customers, has brought many customers to C.C.

"No need." Jiang Qi shook his head, "I had no intention of buying city-limited or exclusive purchases. To be honest, the area of ​​our store is a bit small. The first floor is basically useless, and there are only 5 rooms on the second floor that can be opened. One of them was actually made into a real scene.”

"If I buy a batch of city limits and go back exclusively, I will have to change the rooms and put props in them. Not only will the rooms not be enough, but the utility room may not be enough."

Yan Huaiyou heard something else from Jiang Qi's words: "Do you want to change the store?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Jiang Qi shook his head, "If there is a suitable store in the alley, I might rent it and open a second store."

Jiang Qi wanted to change the store, but the Horror Doll House was still barely close to two stars. Jiang Qi estimated that it would be upgraded to two stars in the next few days.

The difficulty of upgrading from two stars to three stars will increase several times. Don't even think about changing stores in a short time. You can't move the building card unless you upgrade to three stars. But now there is a real problem that there are not enough rooms in the store, so Jiang Qi has been thinking about renting a larger two-story shop in the alley, opening a few large ones, and opening a second store.

Unfortunately, there are currently few shops in the alley that meet Jiang Qi's standards. Jiang Qi has asked the fruit shop proprietress and Sister Hu to keep an eye out for him and notify him as soon as possible if there is a suitable shop.

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October 17th, sunny, the first day of the exhibition.

Jiang Qi woke up late and didn't wake up until ten in the morning. Went out to have some brunch, and it was already noon when Jiang Qi entered the exhibition hotel.

The lobby on the first floor has changed dramatically.

If yesterday the lobby on the first floor was simply filled with posters, promotional pictures and other advertisements, today there are already many stalls in the lobby on the first floor.

It’s really a stall.

Jiang Qi thought for a moment that he had arrived at a flea market held at a primary school event.

Everyone who bought tickets for the exhibition can receive a small gift bag with the ticket code. Jiang Qi received one and found that it contained a complete distribution list, a small badge for the autumn exhibition, several advertisements for popular books and a package Napkins with the Autumn Exhibition logo printed on them.

There is a map on the booklet, and Jiang Qi learned from the map that there are several banquet halls on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the hotel. There are also many small publishing booths in the banquet hall for promotion and sales.

This year's autumn exhibition has hundreds of publishers, countless new authors, thousands of stores and countless ordinary players participating in the exhibition. The public parking spaces of large publishing companies cannot be grabbed, and the public parking spaces of small publishing companies are not available.

Jiang Qi grabbed a bus space in the "Horror. Doll House" store on the mini program yesterday. This afternoon, there were no people available. Only 3 of the 6 people were interested.

Jiang Qi’s WeChat account was added to the release of this book, telling him that he would be notified on WeChat once everyone gathered together. At the same time, he sent a long list of comments about how good this book was. I am very grateful to Jiang Qi for being interested in this book. I hope He can help spread the word.

It can be said that the attitude is very good.

Jiang Qi wandered between stalls like an ordinary player.

There are a lot of ordinary players like him. Normal store owners usually race against time to get on the bus on the first day, ob, and pick orders, and there is no time for messing around. Those who set up stalls to promote at this time are all small publishers who can't get enough money to buy the official tickets. No one is interested in their own books and no one wants to play them, so naturally they have to come out to promote them.

It is expensive for a store to run an exhibition, and the distribution cost is even higher. If it cannot sell, it will lose money.

Jiang Qi bought a cup of milk tea and wandered around looking at the posters of various books. He was not interested in toy books, he mainly wanted to see if there were any ready-made boxed ones with good posters to scan.

"Psychic Ghost School III... This book seems quite interesting." The three girls in front of Jiang Qi were attracted by the dark and spooky posters in front of them. At a glance, the three of them knew that they were college students who had no classes and came to join in the fun. .

The publisher of "Psychic School III" was a chestnut-haired girl. Seeing that some people were interested in this poster, she smiled and said: "Three ladies want to experience the new book released by our studio? This is a series of books, but It doesn’t matter if you haven’t played the first two books. If the three ladies want to play, they can do it now. We already have three people here, room 908.”

"The three young ladies only need to write us a short review of a few words after the experience. It would be even better if they could send it to WeChat Moments to help us promote it."

The three female college students were really moved after hearing this. One of the girls with short hair asked: "How long will this take?"

"4~5 hours."

The three female college students agreed. The chestnut-haired girl stood up and was about to lead them to room 908. Jiang Qi, who had been studying the hotel's brochure beside him, spoke up.

"Excuse me, can I go up with you and watch from the side?"

The chestnut-haired girl said happily: "Of course."

Jiang Qi grabbed a leaflet and took the elevator upstairs with them.

908 is an ordinary single room with a very small space. Players can only sit on the bed, carpet or chair to read books. The onlookers, such as Jiang Qi, can theoretically only stand and not even have a chair.

But since he was the only passer-by who came to watch, the two publishers and an author of this studio paid great attention to him and specially bought him a chair so that he could sit and watch.

The person who opened the book was a girl with chestnut hair. The three people in this studio were all girls. A group of people gathered around the bed, using the bed as a table, holding A4 paper clipped with clips and started playing with the book.

Jiang Qi watched like this for more than two hours.

One thing to say, this one is quite average. It's a very cliched and vulgar story about evil ghosts killing people due to school bullying. It would probably score 5 points at most if it were made into a horror film. It's not a bad book, but it's not a good one either. At best, it's an ordinary horror book with a decent title.

Horror depends on the atmosphere. In such a small room, in addition to closing the curtains, turning off the lights, and adjusting the light to create a scary atmosphere, it is difficult to create an effect with sound when there are people watching, not to mention that there is no way to perform in such a large space. .

The six people in the room haven't finished playing yet, but Jiang Qi has already guessed the general outline of the story, and through the A4 paper in the hand of one of the players, he roughly understands the author's writing style and description techniques.

Jiang Qi felt that he understood it almost, so he stood up and prepared to call the other distributor in the room to discuss the price.

Just as he stood up, another publisher also noticed, thinking that he wanted to leave, and took the initiative to follow him out.

Before Jiang Qi could say anything, the girl spoke first: "What do you think of our book?"

"It's okay." Jiang Qi said.

"Then, little brother, can you help us promote it by sending it to WeChat Moments? I'll add you on WeChat and send you the poster." Distributor said enthusiastically.

"Do I have to post on Moments?" Jiang Qi was a little embarrassed. He has never posted on Moments for ten thousand years.

I was a little disappointed with the release, but I couldn't force the ordinary people who came to the exhibition to join in the fun and watch the crowd to help promote it. He smiled reluctantly and wanted to persuade again, so he listened to Jiang Qi's continued words.

"Can't you buy it directly? Your "Psychic Ghost School III" may not be in stock. Are the first two in stock?"

issued:?

From the beginning, what attracted Jiang Qi was not the poster of this book, but the flyer on this book stall.

Although this publisher is a small publisher whose name I have never heard of, it produces a lot of genuine products.

There are four copies of "Psychic Ghost School I and II" and "Women's Ghost House I and II" printed on the flyers.

The prices are also very cheap.

Jiang Qi had been wandering around for a long time, and what he wanted to find was this kind of small publisher that packaged and sold copies cheaply.

The release didn't even respond.

"I see what is written in your flyer. The exhibition price of "Psychic School III" has been reduced by 100 to only 398. The other 4 books are also discounted, with a minimum of only 199. If you buy all of them, you will get an extra copy. What is the gift? ah?"

""Legend of Flower City", the first book produced by our studio, was not printed because it could not be printed on the flyer." The publisher blurted out.

"What's the package price for buying all 5 books?"

Xia immediately took out his mobile phone and started pressing the calculator: "1,394 yuan."

Six copies cost 1,394 yuan. On average, one copy cost more than 200 yuan, which is almost the same price as the second-hand copies Jiang Bing bought. As expected, it was still cheaper due to the discount at the exhibition.

"Are you the store owner?" The distribution girl finally reacted.

Jiang Qi:......

Why does he feel that this girl is less professional than him?

After adding each other on WeChat and confirming the address, Jiang Qi paid readily and then chatted with the unprofessional publishing lady for a while and found that they were really unprofessional.

Like Jiang Qi, they were attending the exhibition for the first time.

These three people jointly opened a script-selling shop. They published so many books because they liked writing books. The previous books were sold on online platforms, and the sales were mediocre. A total of more than a hundred copies of these books were sold.

They have never been to an exhibition before. One reason is that they can't afford it, and the other reason is that they themselves feel that the quality of their previous products is mediocre and useless.

They chose to come to the autumn exhibition this time, partly because they feel they have finally written a book of decent quality, and partly because the store has made money this year and can afford to attend the exhibition.

It was my first time to attend an exhibition. The publishing girl sold 5 copies on the first day and gave away 1 copy. She felt that she was successful. This exhibition finally did not lose all her money.

Jiang Qi:......

It's quite amazing.

It can only be said that there are all kinds of releases at the Autumn Exhibition, and these three are obviously on the comedy route.

The publishing girl enthusiastically sent Jiang Qi all the way downstairs before going back. After returning, the author girl saw how happy she was and asked in a low voice: "Did that guy just agree to help us promote it? Why did you wait for so long?" "

"No." The publishing lady couldn't hold back the joy in her heart, "He is a store owner, not a passerby. He bought all the books we sold!"

"Holy shit." The author was shocked. "When he receives the goods, he won't think it's too bad and will cause trouble for us, right?"

Publishing lady:......

The distribution girl thought about it and felt that Jiang Qi seemed to only care about price and not quality, and said, "Probably not."

"I think he bought our book because it was cheap."

"He also asked me if I knew any Honda products with heavy discounts. I felt like he was just here to shop."

This chapter is two in one~