Zhang Chu did see the controversy facing him on the Internet, but he did not express any opinion on it.

Now that he has become a public figure, the amount of rhetoric against these statements is too small.

What's more, these voices can't be forbidden, and Zhang Chu doesn't have time to entangle with these people.

In the morning in the Hanlinxuan bookstore, Zhang Chu sat bored on the glass wall in a daze, with a laptop and a tablet in front of him.

Originally, I planned to draw more pictures and save for "What Happened to the Rabbit That Year" in the study at home, so that after the manuscript is saved, I can start writing a new book!

If you don't save the manuscript, it's easy to break the update.

Zhang Chu completely forgot that he hadn't updated his comics for almost a week, and if there was a manuscript, this kind of thing would obviously not happen.

Of course, manga are rarely updated every day, and most of the time they are updated weekly.

Updating every day is too much pressure on the painter!

Readers are very tolerant of painters, but they are much stricter with authors, Zhang Chu feels congested when he thinks about it, otherwise he will transform into a full-time painter.

At this time, the campus looked extremely empty, and the pouring rain was pouring down, and the entire bookstore was devoid of any customers.

Originally, during the summer vacation, if the weather was good, a few tourists or students who stayed on campus could come in, but now all the clerks and store managers are bored.

Some are sitting and playing with their phones, some are looking down at books, and some are sorting out shelves and checking inventory.

"Boss, if we are so idle every day, we seem to lose a lot of money. Zhong Liangping said worriedly, he didn't want to look for a job again in a few months!

Zhang Chu took a sip of coffee and said comfortingly: "Don't worry too much, old Zhong, it's a holiday now, and it's this kind of weather again." As the saying goes, the wind is halved and the rain is gone, so it's good to wait for school to start. ”

Zhong Liangping is not as big as Zhang Chu, he handed over the sales table of the bookstore he had just typed out since its opening, and the sales figures on it were simply shocking!

"Well, this line chart is terrifying. ”

Originally, Zhang Chu was quite confident in the sales of the bookstore, but now it seems to be really miserable!

The day when the sales were the highest was when it opened, and Zhang Chu was engaged in the signing of "The Legend of Wukong" in the bookstore that day.

not only sold hundreds or thousands of copies of "The Legend of Wukong", but also sold a lot of other works and peripheral products.

Since then, sales have plummeted, and dozens of books can be sold every day, and the bulk of sales is actually on Yanda's postcards and Wukong Chuan merchandise.

It started to rain at 9 o'clock this morning, and the bookstore has not yet opened, so it is no wonder that everyone is worried that the bookstore will close.

"The sun is always after the wind and rain, and the school will start in a few days, so it will definitely be useful to do publicity when the time comes. At the same time, a new batch of teaching and auxiliary materials should also be entered, and the bookstore will not close down even if it loses money, which is a signboard. ”

Zhong Liangping only settled down after receiving Zhang Chu's assurance, otherwise he would want to re-do his resume and hand it over to the headhunter.

Running a bookstore is not an easy task, and a campus bookstore is even tougher.

"I'm going to take a look at the messages on the WeChat official account right now to see what kind of books these students want, so I can go and discuss the purchase with the publishing house. ”

After Zhang Chumu sent Zhong Liangping to get up and leave, he took the pen and drew carefully on the tablet.

In fact, if "What Happened to the Rabbit That Year" sorted out the story, it would be very easy and simple to draw pictures, who made those animals stick figures.

The content of the third episode was quickly presented on the pen tablet, and Zhang Chu enlarged the image on the computer monitor, and then made appropriate modifications to save it.

I didn't know the passage of time when I was painting, and when Zhang Chu raised his neck and twisted it, he found that the rain outside had turned into wisps of light rain, but there was water everywhere on the road.

He closed his computer and tablet, and was about to drive out of school to get some food, who would have thought that when he turned around, he saw an unexpected person!

Zhang Chu said in surprise: "Editor Gu, why are you here?"

Gu Xinxue, who was wearing a blue polo shirt, was standing in front of the bookshelf and flipping through a book casually, and after hearing Zhang Chu's words, he put the book down.

Originally, he was supposed to be in Sanya, on the South China Sea Island, but now he actually appeared in Yanjing, and it was in his own bookstore!

"Recently, there was a Yenching International Book Fair, and our publishing house also came to participate in the exhibition. I've wanted to visit your bookstore for a long time, and now it looks pretty good. I'm also a person who has come to Yan University to study now!"

Gu Xinxue said with a very humorous feeling, this editor of Nanhai Publishing Company is Zhang Chu's noble man and Bole.

"I see, have you had lunch? "The people take food as the sky, and Zhang Chu directly invited his own editor to have a meal.

"I'm just a little hungry, and with you, a local tyrant, I knew that I should have been hungry to make room since last night. ”

Zhang Chu shrugged his shoulders, pointed to the toilet and said, "Now you can also go to the toilet over there." ”

"It's still not necessary. I didn't bother when I saw that you were drawing very seriously just now, it turns out that the comics are so simple!"

Gu Xinxue followed Zhang Chu to the car at the door of the bookstore, and said to himself: "Why is the painting so easy, and you haven't updated it for a week?"

"Delusion, just delusion. What you see is only superficial work, but in reality, it takes a lot of preparation. ”

After the two fastened their seat belts, Zhang Chu started the car and drove towards the West Gate, he had lived in the West Gate for a semester before, and he was very familiar with the places to eat around it, so he simply chose Jiashan City hot pot on a rainy day.

"Editor Gu, you said that the Emmy nominations have been announced, why is there no movement on the book sales list?"

Zhang Chu asked while driving, which made him very puzzled.

Entertainment news came out yesterday morning, and there was a lot of discussion on the Internet later, but judging from yesterday's sales announced today, there is no "Sherlock" in the top 100 physical book sales at all!

Gu Xinxue shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe the news is lagging behind, let's see if the sales will rise today." There is also the possibility that that type of readership may be saturated and basically reach the upper limit. ”

"It's really possible, and I expect its cumulative sales to be three million or even five million, but now it's completely useless. ”

"Sherlock's nomination effect in the United States is quite large, and the data fed back to us by Random House shows that the book's sales increase in North America is the highest among the original Emmy Award nominations. ”

Many American dramas are adapted from or other literary works, and when these American dramas are popular and nominated for awards, they will have a role in promoting the original work.

Now Shenxia is extremely competitive, and it is the largest increase in the original book, which can be regarded as a loss of comfort to Zhang Chu.

The American awards still have a greater impact on Americans!