June 9th

Trafalgar Square.

Located in the heart of London, this square is bordered by the city of London to the east, the downtown Soho district to the north, Whitehall Street to the south, and the royal palace to the southwest.

Its modest location and beautiful square architecture make it one of London's top attractions.

The reputation of Pigeon Square Ye Kai had heard of it before, but he always thought it was a big square, just like the most famous Yanjing Square in China.

But when you actually come here, you will feel that this square is actually very small.

Its beauty lies in the exquisite architecture and art-like fountains, and the marble castle stands straight outside the British Royal Cardinals, with swords in both hand.

Ye Kai's signing meeting was also held here.

In one corner of the square, there is a building modeled after Greek columns, and there is a corridor more than two meters wide outside the house, separated by a guardrail.

Ye Kai is in this corridor.

A large number of books are placed in the square, and the partners of the publishing house are selling these books, those who don't need to sign can buy the books and leave, and those who need to sign can line up to Ye Kai to get autographs with books.

However, most of the people who buy books here come to get autographs.

Only a small number of them are too lazy to queue up to buy books and leave, or continue to visit the attractions, or return home to start reading.

Today's temperature in London does not exceed 19 degrees, which is the cooler time and the sky is very faceless and there is no sign of rain.

A young man with a lot of freckles on his face respectfully handed the book to Ye Kai and said, "Excuse me, I like your book very much, this is the third book I have purchased." ”

Ye Kai took the book and began to sign.

He has calligraphy skills, and his signature in English is also very soft, which is different from other art forms, although it is written in English, it looks unique.

When he signed the sign, Ye Kai didn't look at the tip of his pen, but looked at the young man with a smile and asked, "Thank you very much for your support, by the way, which character in the book do you like?"

"I?ahh ”

Ye Kai glanced down at his signature, closed the book and returned it to the young man with satisfaction, and said with a gentle smile: "Is it Miss Duo?" haha, I like it too. ”

It's a pity that she is not a heroine in the traditional sense.

The young man nodded excitedly before leaving, Ye Kai still kept signing, and occasionally asked, "Do you like that character in the book?"

Or: "Thank you for your support, beautiful young lady, what's your name." ”

In fact, these are the words taught by the publishing house to Ye Kai, otherwise it is very boring to sit and only write the whole process, and such inquiries will bring readers a sense of interaction.

In the crowd, there were Chinese people queuing up with books, discussing in twos and threes: "That's Ye Kai who wrote English, right? It doesn't feel as bad as it says on the Internet." ”

"Yes, there are signings at Pigeon Square, and there is a lot of promotion of this book in Britain these days, and I have seen it many times from the station. ”

This is a group of young tourists, and when they left London for other cities the other day, they had not seen any Harry Potter publicity on the streets.

And since the other day, they have seen Harry Potter posters on the streets of Edinburgh.

And it has intensified in just a few days.

There are advertisements in the station, there are subway stations, and even Harry Potter promotional posters can be seen on the subway, which doesn't seem to be as popular as the domestic news says.

If they hadn't known that this book was written by Ye Kai, they wouldn't have associated such a book with the Chinese people at all.

Now there are domestic media talking about the latest situation of this book, but the popularity of this matter is far from reaching the previous effect, causing more Chinese people to think that Ye Kai's new book is an upset abroad.

After waiting for an hour and a half, the group of people finally lined up in front of Ye Kai.

Ye Kai took the book and subconsciously said, "Hello, thank you for your support." ”

When he signed, Ye Kai looked up at the person who bought the book, it was a completely oriental face, Ye Kai nodded to her, and asked directly in Chinese: "Is it a Huaxia person?"

"Yes, we all are. She pointed to a few people behind her.

"Thank you for your support, I hope this book will not disappoint you, I don't care too much about others, but I hope domestic book lovers don't scold me. ”

This girl hadn't spoken yet, and the person standing behind her heard Ye Kai's words and hurriedly said: "No, no, no, Brother Ye, your book was released in the UK, and many people in China have not read it and are commenting randomly, it doesn't make sense at all." ”

Ye Kai signed his name in Chinese characters and English and handed it to the Chinese tourist, and said to her and to the people behind her: "Thank you, everyone understands, there should be a Chinese version in China soon." ”

Yesterday's sales were a little higher than before, but the increase was not so terrifying, not a doubling increase.

After this signing today, the daily sales will definitely exceed 50,000, or even 60,000. And this is in the UK, not in China, which has a large population.

With such achievements, Ye Kai already has the confidence to sell in China.

In fact, publishers have begun to reach out to bookstores in Europe and the United States, as well as some online bookstores, such as Amazon.

In the future, the Harry Potter book will be available in many large bookstores in Europe and the United States.

However, Ye Kai, the Chinese copyright of the book, was not sold to Cambridge University Press, so Ye Kai also needed to contact domestic publishers to republish.

However, translating these English into Chinese is a problem, but fortunately, no matter what the translation looks like, no one will pursue it, unless it is Ye Kai who embarrasses himself.

The sun in the sky moved slowly but firmly, and when the warm sunlight crossed the roof, leaving Ye Kai's corridor in shadow, Ye Kai had time to look at the time.

"It's been six hours, can you eat?"

He picked up his trench coat from another seat and put it on, casually asking the publishing house employee next to him. Kem didn't need to be there on this occasion, so he showed up in the morning and chatted with Ye Kai for a while.

The employee was probably a little hungry as well, so he nodded hurriedly.

"Of course, we've already found a restaurant, do you think you want to go now?"

Hearing this, Ye Kai looked at the queue that was still lined up, there were still many people who had been queuing since the morning, and the most was estimated to be two hours.

Ye Kai didn't know where the restaurant they were looking for was and how long it would take to eat, so he said, "Can you find me two hamburgers and a coke?"

"Ah, how can this be done, Mr. Ye, you can eat with us, it won't take more than an hour. ”

"There are so many more. ”

Headache, but also very happy, Ye Kai has not seen anyone who finds fault in the morning, everyone is very harmonious and educated, and like the British people I have seen before, they always speak with honorifics.

Ye Kai likes this environment very much, and is a little reluctant to let book lovers stand and wait for him for an hour.

But the signing session is not a one-person event, there are more than 20 staff members in the audience, and it is impossible to leave themselves alone here to sign and they go to the restaurant to eat.

So Ye Kai thought of a way, and while signing, he said to the employees standing beside him: "Call some people to order first, and we'll go over later." ”