A few days later.

International Children's Day on 1 June.

Carp streamers can be seen flying on rooftops all over the island country, from metropolises like Kyoto to the poorer mountain towns of Hokkaido.

This is the deepest expectation of Oriental people for their children.

Ye Kai drove on the road along the lake, thinking about whether to post a Weibo for the new book?

Today is the time for Harry Potter to be released in the UK, and Ye Kai is still a little nervous in his heart, wanting to let readers in Huaxia know the news of his new book as soon as possible.

I'm afraid that they don't understand why they want to write a foreign book.

In the car is a pop music list from NetEase Cloud, which has mostly English songs, and occasionally Japanese songs and Chinese songs can be heard.

It's good that he can understand it now.

"Forget it, let's talk about it when the book is popular. Ye Kai muttered.

After all, I am not so confident.

He didn't have that deep understanding of European culture, and after writing this one, Ye Kai didn't dare to open a new book until now, just to see the reaction after Harry Potter was released.

However, it is not good for readers who don't tell Huaxia anything after releasing a new book.

So Ye Kai was ready to give them a little bit of news, so as not to be dug up in the end, blaming himself for not telling them anything.

As for what readers want to see......

Then there is no way.

If the book sells well in Europe, the publishing house will naturally ask Ye Kai to translate it into Chinese and send it to China, if it doesn't sell well......

That's not good.

Ye Kai had already thought clearly, if this book didn't work, it meant that he didn't have the strength and experience to write foreign languages, and he would continue to hone in China for a few years.

Let's talk about the trip I made the other day.

After leaving Hokkaido, Ye Kai stayed in Kyoto, staying in a hotel next to the Shibuya Crossroads, and sitting on the balcony with the most crowded intersection in the world.

Every day when you commute to work, you will be greeted by a surging crowd from all directions, and at most more than 3,000 people will cross the intersection at the same time, which is definitely a sight to behold during the journey.

It is also the filming location of Resident Evil in the island nation.

Yesterday, Ye Kai also flew in a helicopter over Kyoto and saw the real steel jungle.

Or the sea of steel.

He had known that Kyoto was huge, but he couldn't feel it when he lived in it, and it didn't feel any different from other cities.

But you will only find it when you fly in the sky.

No matter what direction you look, you can only see the house.

Countless high-rise buildings have no boundaries at all, as if they are a sea that belongs to the modern era. After all, nearly 40 million people live in Kyoto, which is almost twice as many as Yanjing in China.

Everything you see about Kyoto was built after the end of World War II, when the area was bombed into ruins by American missiles. Today's Kyoto was rebuilt from the ruins.

The pilot said all this with pride.

After being shocked, Ye Kai suddenly thought of his country's Shenzhen City, which was a small fishing village a few decades ago, and now it has become an international city?

So I don't think the Kyoto metropolitan area is so powerful anymore.

After visiting Kyoto by helicopter, Ye Kai continued south and drove through Honshu.

On the other side of the lake is the famous Mt. Fuji.

However, I don't know if it's not the right season, but the summit of Mt. Fuji is covered in clouds and mist, and you can only see some snow-covered mountainsides and a forest on the ground.

All this did not have any impact on Ye Kai, and it did not stop.

It wasn't Mt. Fuji that left Kyoto, but an extremely old mountain road that he was going to take from Kyoto to the capital of the island nation hundreds of years ago.

Heiankyo

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United Kingdom

British people love to read, whether it's in a roadside café or a fast food restaurant, on the subway or on the train, you can see British people holding books.

This tone, this force, very high, very high.

So it's not for nothing that British books are expensive, because demand dictates the market.

In the Stanfords bookstore, Ye Kai's books are placed in the most conspicuous place, almost as soon as you enter the door, and there are huge promotional posters on the outer wall of the bookstore.

It stands to reason that Ye Kai's book does not have such a great influence.

Especially in this famous bookstore.

Stanfords has two stores in London and Bristol, England, and this one is a flagship store near CoventGarden, which was originally built in 1901.

This is the largest travel bookstore in the world.

The owner of the bookstore is very old, but he still likes to travel very much, and he also knows Ye Kai as a person.

A traveler is not uncommon, and neither is a photographer.

But when a good photographer becomes a traveler, it is not a simple photo to bring to those who like to see the outside world, but can't travel far.

Each of Ye Kai's works on Weibo is a carefully selected boutique.

Some time ago, Ye Kai posted a Weibo in the island country, on which there were several photographs of snowy scenes, among which the boss liked the photo of people very much.

So after knowing that "HarryPotter" was a book created by Ye Kai, he gave Ye Kai the best treatment.

Generally, it is the international famous author who publishes a new book, and it will be placed directly in this position in the bookstore, and in addition, the bestsellers of the season are placed.

Many people who come to bookstores to buy books see new books neatly placed on the shelves at a glance.

"Who wrote it?"

Erin, who was wandering around the store, picked up the book.

KAIYE？

The name style...... Orientals, China is still an island country.

Books from island countries can still often be seen in Europe and the United States, but the books of Chinese authors do not sell well in Europe and the United States, let alone in the prime position of bookstores.

From the title and cover of the book, Erin could vaguely guess the style of the book.

Mystical magic.

After all, the name of this book is called the Mysterious Philosopher's Stone.

And looking at the title, this is still a series.

She wasn't going to buy it, a European magic written by an Oriental, can you read it?, but after finding out that this is a series, maybe because the bookstore gave the book such a high rating.

So, Erin walked to the cash register with the book.

Except for this bookstore, other bookstores did not have such good sales, first of all, the book was not opened, and people could not see the plot of the early stage of the book.

I don't know if this book is good or not.

The important thing is that the book is expensive, and many people feel that it is not worth the money because they have not seen any publicity about the book before, which indirectly leads many people to think that it is a street book.

About three blocks from the Stanfords bookstore, Mr. Harvey also bought the book as a Children's Day gift for his daughter.

Different places, different people, have walked out of the bookstore with "Harry Potter", whether they read it themselves or gave it to their daughter.

Always see if this book is really good.

So many people tore open the packaging on the subway or in the park and opened HarryPotter.

The boy who never died.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, who live at 4 Privet Road, always proudly say that they are unorthodox people. They have never been involved in strange things, because they don't believe in those evil ways at all.

Mr. Vernon Desza was a supervisor at a company called Browning, which manufactured drilling rigs. He was tall and burly, so fat that he barely had a neck............

A cat that can turn into a human.

People in green cloaks in the streets in broad daylight, meteor showers falling all over the UK, flocks of owls on the streets......

It was as if there was some magic that had always attracted Erin's mind, forcing her to keep turning the pages and even forgetting everything around her.

The atmosphere created by the author is also too mysterious, and Erin wants to find something about magic in every word of the book, but the real world in the book is completely unaware of the existence of magic.

Does this mean that everything about magic is being hidden?

Erin was relieved to see that Harry had finally been borrowed from some cramped, spider-infested cupboard, and she never wanted to see Harry continue to live with an ugly, stupid family of relatives again.

Is the mysterious world of magic about to unfold?

She looked up at the bright lights of the subway, and her spirit was still immersed in the world until she saw where the subway was running now.

It's almost to the terminal, 7 more than the stations I want to get off the subway.

O my God!

Am I obsessed with what I see?

On the other side of the ocean, Ye Kai parked his car at a lodging on Zhongshan Road, carrying only a travel bag containing the necessary food and water.

In the southern part of the island country, there is a city called Heiankyo.

Until the founding of Kyoto in 1868, Heiankyo was the capital of the island nation, and there was a great road between the two cities compared to the island nation.

This is the Nakasendo Road, a post road that connected Edo to Heiankyo during the Edo period of the island country.

In the past, when there were no vehicles, in the era of samurai and shoguns, this road was the only way to get from Edo to Heiankyo, and the whole journey took more than 18 days.

Before the country was opened by naval artillery, the island nation had been in a nationwide blockade.

At that time, the internal management of Huaxia was not so strict, even ordinary people could walk around the country, as long as they didn't get caught.

And in the island country, there are still countless interrogations before you can leave a city.

Filled with woods and wild beasts, roads like this are so precious that for hundreds of years students who want to go to Heiankyo and samurai of the island country who want to hone their bushido must walk this path.

And it has not undergone any modern repairs until now.

After Ye Kai learned about this place a few days ago, he always wanted to take a trip on this road to see how the people of the island country used to pass this road.

There are a total of 69 lodgings along the way, which can be understood as a post station on the ancient road, which later developed into a small town or village.

There is certainly no way to walk the entire distance, as many sections of the road have been destroyed, but there are enough sections that have survived to provide a feeling of living in the island nation of Edo's time.

Is there a greater way than this?

Of course.

The Silk Road and the Ancient Tea Horse Road were extremely important transportation arteries in ancient times.

But neither of these roads has the appearance of ancient times.