Chapter 147 After All, Who Can Refuse to Eat Melon?

For some reason, Jiang Qi felt that Cao Luoping looked at him strangely until he got on the plane and sat down.

Jiang Qi could only say:?

Did Cao Luoping discover the fact that he was a layman?

It shouldn't be, he wasn't the only one who didn't understand just now, Yan Huaiyou didn't understand it either.

The seats of Jiang Qi, Manager Xu and Yan Huaiyou are connected. Jiang Qi is sitting by the window. As soon as he takes his seat, he takes out his headphones from his pocket and prepares to watch the variety show downloaded in advance on his mobile phone. Manager Xu tilts his head towards Yan Huaiyou reported on the arrangements for the past few days.

Store manager Xu is a gold medal store manager that Yan Huaiyou hired from an out-of-town script store with a super high base salary of 10,000 yuan + a cut of the store's turnover. He has very strong business capabilities.

Because he was hired by a script store from out of town, he couldn't bring the customer resources he had on hand, but his peer resources were still there. Store manager Xu has been to many exhibitions over the years and knows a lot of publishers. This is why he was able to grab a bus seat when Cao Luoping couldn't even grab an ob seat.

"Boss Jiang, are there any books that you are interested in? I can help you grab a bus space." Manager Xu said to Jiang Qi enthusiastically after reporting the itinerary.

Jiang Qi was only interested in "Dollhouse of Horror", and he wanted to see what this pirated version could do.

So Jiang Qi didn't bother store manager Xu. It's not easy to lead a slutty boss. He just asked for advice on how to use a small program to grab a seat. After roughly understanding it, he continued to watch variety shows.

As a result, because the variety show he downloaded was too boring, Jiang Qi fell asleep while watching it. When he was woken up by store manager Xu, the plane had already started to land and his phone was almost out of battery.

"Manager Xu, did you bring a power bank?" Jiang Qi asked, looking at the mobile phone with only 6% battery.

"I've got it. It's in my bag. I'll give it to you when we get off the plane."

"Thanks."

The hotel where the exhibition is located is not very far from the airport. Yan Huaiyouding's hotel is right next to the exhibition hotel. It takes about twenty minutes to get there by taxi.

After checking in, Manager Xu said that he had contacted a few publishing friends he had known before to meet at the exhibition hotel. Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou had nothing to do, so they decided to go and have a look together.

Although the exhibition only starts tomorrow, the hotel has already been decorated. Various standing posters were printed with script covers and slogans in various formats. They looked quite decent, which opened the eyes of Jiang Qi, who had never participated in any kind of exhibition.

"So you asked Ben to play in the lobby?" Jiang Qi glanced at the hotel lobby and felt that it was not very suitable. Even if the hotel had a separate banquet hall, it would not be enough.

Yan Huaiyou raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say you wanted to check the exhibition online? What did you find? Of course the book was opened in the hotel room."

"You may not believe it, but I found a lot of melons and learned a lot of tricks that stores use to trick each other to steal city-limited exclusives."

As soon as Jiang Qi finished speaking, Jiang Jun stopped him.

"Boss Jiang, what a coincidence, you are here too." Jiang Jun said with a smile, "A dealer I know wants to set up a private car tonight. Are you two interested?"

"Private car?"

"It's a private round. It's a new book that has just completed its first draft. It's not going to be exhibited at tomorrow's autumn exhibition. It's just a private round tonight." Jiang Jun explained.

Jiang Qi thought for a while and declined politely: "I have some personal matters tonight, so I probably don't have time."

He came here to purchase goods, and what he wanted was a new copy that was in stock or could be shipped soon. He was not interested in this kind of seedling copy that had just completed the first draft and did not know when it would be completely completed.

Yan Huaiyou was somewhat interested: "How is the quality of the book?"

"It should be okay. I bought this author's last book, but it didn't sell well because of the subject matter. It's a pity."

"If there aren't enough people, count me in."

"Would you two come with me to a nearby coffee shop? I've made an appointment with a few store friends I met before. Let's get to know each other. If we find any good books, we can share them with each other." Jiang Jun extended the invitation.

"Okay." Jiang Qi nodded. His first priority at the exhibition was to make friends, so he naturally wouldn't refuse.

"Where's Boss Cao?" Yan Huaiyou asked.

"He went gold hunting. Of the two of us, he actually has a better eye for books. I don't know why, but the books I like are always good but not popular. As a result, I often come across books I like but don't dare to buy them. , maybe my taste is not in line with the public." Jiang Jun smiled bitterly.

As he spoke, Jiang Jun looked at Jiang Qi: "Boss Jiang, your store is more powerful. You can modify any kind of books. There is no pressure to buy books."

From what Jiang Jun said, Jiang Qi seemed to have come to Xinghe Script Club to play scripts. Since the business in the store was particularly good, Jiang Qi could only remember the super regular customers who wanted to come three or four times a week, and had no impression of Jiang Jun.

"Have you ever played with books from our store?"

Jiang Jun revealed the colorful rope hidden under his sleeves and smiled: "Boss Jiang, your store is the light of our script store in Xuancheng. It has become very popular, and there are 8 appointment groups. I want to open a script-killing store in Xuancheng Yes, there should be no one who hasn’t played with it in your store."

"When "Horror Doll House" was a hot search, many friends from out of town asked me about this book in your store. There are nearly 100,000 real-life copies, and there are many people who are tempted to buy it."

"Has anyone bought it?" Jiang Qi was a little curious. He wanted to know if anyone had been cheated on and spent 100,000 yuan to buy a scary dollhouse without Lili.

Jiang Jun shook his head: "I don't know if you can open a script store in our city with 100,000 yuan."

Jiang Qi thinks so. When Jiang Bing opened the Galaxy Script Club, he probably didn't spend more than 100,000 yuan.

While chatting, the three of them arrived at the coffee shop.

The friends Jiang Jun made appointments with were all script store owners from out of town, two women and one man. After Jiang Jun introduced Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou to his friends, everyone expressed that they have been attracted by the Galaxy Script Club for a long time. One of them even went to the Galaxy Script Club during the National Day to play "Horror Doll House" and rolled up his sleeves to show his hands. colorful rope to prove identity.

For some reason, Jiang Qi suddenly felt that it would become routine for others to roll up their sleeves and reveal a colorful rope when greeting him in the future.

After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone ordered a cup of coffee and sat down. A few people first chatted about this exhibition, focusing on a few that attracted much attention, but Jiang Qi had no idea what it was about.

After listening to several people chatting about the exhibition for so long, Jiang Qi roughly summarized what kind of exhibition is highly anticipated.

Adapted from a big IP (most likely a bad copy), produced by a major publisher (maybe a bad copy), written by a well-known author (maybe a bad copy).

The summary is that no matter what kind of book it is, it may be a bad book.

Jiang Qi understands this very well. No matter how delicious the stewed vegetables in the stone pot are, or how profound the Necromancer's expertise in stewed vegetables is, it cannot change the fact that "Eat Your Heart" is a super bad book.

After a symbolic chat about the exhibition, everyone started chatting about the recent melons.

When talking about this, Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou became energetic.

Who doesn’t like eating melon?

Since there were six people at this table, except for Jiang Qi, Jiang Jun and Yan Huaiyou, they were from the same city, and the other three were from different cities. There was no conflict of interest among them, so they shared the melons without any scruples.

Everyone first started to criticize a certain issue without naming it.

This publishing house just started at this spring’s exhibition, and it has a hit product. It is said that there are many popular people, and the same goes for the issuing company. In addition, the operation of this issuing company is very confusing, which led to several people scolding him very mercilessly.

"I have only heard that the store that buys the city limited editions of a series that comes out first has priority. I have never heard that if you want to buy city limited editions, you have to pack up and buy all the bad books that the store has released before. Elementary school student writing , bullshit logic, no plot, boxed, I had to sigh before walking away, it’s so worthless to sell it for only 2299, and it’s not reduced in price, what a paratrooper stuff.” The owner of a local store in Peiping, sitting opposite Jiang Qi, said angrily. , "There is actually a store owner who praises his stinky feet, it must be full of shit in his head."

"Aren't these releases the result of a group of store owners with bad brains?" said the female boss next to her. "Didn't I buy this series at the Spring Exhibition? It was just shipped to me last month. It's completely in stock. That’s not right, not a single thing that was said to be changed during the Spring Exhibition test has been changed, and a horror-tinged mystery book even has problems with nuclear subterfuge.”

"I asked the distribution group in the after-sales group why it hadn't been changed. The distribution group kicked me out of the group and even posted a message on WeChat about me saying that I would never cooperate with this kind of store in the future."

"What the hell." The shopkeeper in Peiping rolled his eyes, "A few rat droppings ruined a pot of porridge, just like those cerebral palsy people who stuffed their room cards."

Jiang Jun doesn't have the worries of stores in big cities. There are very few stores in Xuncheng, a small place, that are willing to buy a bunch of city-limited exclusives. The competition pressure is low, and there is no need to compete for a city-limited or exclusive store.

But Jiang Jun is also worried, because just because he won't grab everyone's head doesn't mean that no one will grab him.

There's nothing wrong with grabbing a job, but if there's a guy named Zhen who's watching you grab the job you're interested in, and even using dirty tricks behind your back, it's not a pleasant thing.

"Why does Boss Zhen always compete with you for money?" Jiang Qi expressed confusion.

"Because he doesn't know how to choose books. Don't look at the so many publishers and stores in this exhibition. Many stores don't understand the script industry at all. If you think you can make money, you open a store. When you buy books, you buy them blindly. You just buy what others say is good. , but no one wanted to play it after buying it, and the city limit of several thousand was lost in their hands."

"Although most of the books I like are very popular but not popular, I think my copy review skills are pretty good. Not to mention my Lao Cao's copy review skills are top-notch. More than half of the best-selling books in the store are from him at the exhibition. It was dug out."

"It turned out that since last year's Autumn Exhibition, the guy surnamed Zhen has been eyeing the two of us like a hyena. He would buy whatever we liked. Originally, it was fine. There was a city limit of one city and three, so he would buy what we liked. , anyway, their business level is not good."

"But since the end of last year, the number of script-killing shops in Xuncheng has increased dramatically. I remember that Boss Jiang opened your shop at the beginning of this year. Once there are more copies in the store, it will be difficult to grab them. The person named Zhen joined several companies during this year's spring exhibition. A store robbed me of my business. He grabbed whatever I liked, and one Spring Exhibition robbed me of two city limits and one exclusive!" Jiang Jun got angry as he said this, "Two cities and one exclusive!"

"The original exclusive authorization letter for that book was sent to me. I don't know what tricks the person named Zhen used, but Gou Publishing withdrew the authorization without any reason."

"Can it still be like this?" Jiang Qi was shocked, not only he was shocked, but Yan Huaiyou was also shocked.

This is equivalent to breaking the contract on the spot after signing it, and the market management has become such a mess.

"Just get used to it." The store owner in Peiping said in a tone like someone who has been through it before. "I have seen through it after running the store for four years. Anything that is illogical can happen."

The meal lasted for more than two hours and did not end until five o'clock. Jiang Qi, who was mentally exhausted, felt that he had eaten something materially as well.

I was hungry after eating melon all afternoon.

Yan Huaiyou was also hungry. After eating the melon, he began to study the specialties of Babaozhai.

"I have reserved the location of Babao Zhai. I can't make an appointment at Yongheju today. Let's eat there another day when we have time." Yan Huaiyou said.

"OK."

"Babao Zhai's prawns in tomato sauce seem pretty good. Someone recommended the roast duck. The boiled fish seems to be pretty good too." Yan Huaiyou started researching what to eat tonight.

"Isn't Babaozhai a Shandong cuisine restaurant? Why is boiled fish the signature dish?" Jiang Qi was puzzled.

"Who knows." Yan Huaiyou began to send a message to store manager Xu to inform him that he was going to eat. "Do you want to call the clerk of your store?"

"Let me ask, Qin Can's school is quite far away from Babao Zhai. She probably doesn't want to go."

Then Jiang Qi misjudged how trouble-free a foodie would be in the face of free meals. Qin Can would rather take the subway for more than an hour to come here.

Since it would take some time for the store manager Xu to finish, Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou went back to the hotel to rest and wait for others. After Jiang Qi researched what signature dishes Yongheju had, he received a friend application from Jiang Jun.

After quickly passing the friend application, Jiang Qi opened the system panel before going out to see the star-upgrading progress of Old John and others, and then took a look at the progress of the task of making one million pure profits.

Then he discovered that the progress of the task of [turning enemies into friends] was 2/8.

Jiang Qi:?

Good guy, a friend who eats melon and eats it.

But if you think about it carefully, we did have a great time chatting with each other in the afternoon. After all, who can refuse to eat melon?