He had been in Yanjing for more than a week, and before he came, Zhuang Yan was preparing to leave for Jinling after the New Year. But suddenly there were a lot of things in the middle, so the plan to go back was delayed.

At the beginning, it was because he accepted Liang Si as a student, and later caught up with the school to inspect the school.

Originally, I thought that I would inspect all the schools in Yanjing at once yesterday, and there were only two schools in total, which was definitely enough time for one day, but yesterday there was another incident, and the inspection of another school could only be put on hold temporarily.

Now Zhuang Yan is not in a hurry, he calculates that after inspecting another school, his new book "Sophie's World" will be released soon, and before the official release, a new book launch will be held in Yanjing.

As for Jinling, anyway, after going back, I was alone in the empty house, and it didn't seem to make much sense to go back.

One morning, Zhuang Yan spent all his time writing books, he was not like Hemingway and the others, he wrote as much as he wanted, and when he was tired, he made himself a cup of tea and rested, and then continued when he had enough rest.

The morning passed, and no one came to disturb them. There are relatively few people who know his private number, and generally except for Yao Qian who has something to do with his work, the others are only Wang Lijian and Yang Zhao. And Yao Qian lives next door, and if there is something, he will come directly.

But this morning, none of them looked for him, but let him steal half a day's leisure.

In the afternoon, Yao Qian knocked on the door of his room to talk about the new book.

The electronic version of the new book was sent to Yu Hai and his publishing house yesterday, and then Yao Qian will talk to Yu Hai about various matters of publishing. Yao Qian meant that he didn't want all his eggs to be put in one basket, and he had put forward his opinion before, asking Zhuang Yan to find a few more publishing houses, not only to make comparisons, but also to bargain with the publishing house to strive for the greatest benefits.

After all, the subordinate publishing houses of the literary and art website are not the strongest publishing houses in China, and there are many publishing houses that are equal to or even surpass them.

According to Zhuang Yan's fame, there is naturally no reason to let himself hang from a tree.

In fact, Zhuang Yan doesn't care, the conditions given by Yu Hai and them are sincere enough, his current royalties have basically reached a top, and if he gives it higher, the publishing house won't want to make money.

Yao Qian thinks about it from a commercial point of view, of course he knows it, so he still says the same thing, try to talk to the literary and art circles, and if it doesn't work, he will find other publishing houses.

In fact, although the energy of the publishing houses under the website of the literary and artistic circles is not big enough, they have special channels, and the general publishing houses want to apply for a book number, and it takes a month to do so, but they are different, they can get the book number in a few days, and they can publish the book in a short time, which is also an advantage for them.

"Try to get it done as quickly as possible, we have a lot of other things to do. ”

Yao Qian nodded, "Well, I'll try to speed it up." ”

Then he said, "Teacher Zhuang, yesterday's incident was on the news again, and Sansi College also made headlines because of you. To say, there are several headlines lately about you. ”

Recently, he has indeed had a lot of news, in addition to the first three on the previous hot search list, there are many other news, such as his relationship with Liu He has been confirmed and has also been on the news.

The previous news heat has not dissipated, and now it is on the hot search again because of yesterday's incident, if you want to talk about traffic, Zhuang Yan also wants to be low-key, but the strength does not allow it.

Zhuang Yan smiled, "I didn't expect what happened yesterday, but next time I take you out, I'm afraid that a few of you will have to disguise it, and you can't just disguise me." ”

When he signed autographs yesterday, he asked the students why they recognized him, and he covered most of his face with a scarf. The students told him that they actually recognized Liang Qichao first and then recognized him.

Yao Qian also smiled, "If several of us are disguised together, I'm afraid it is more likely to attract attention." ”

Zhuang Yan nodded, "It seems that next time I go to inspect the school, a few of them won't be able to bring it." ”

"Well, but then again, now netizens on the Internet are complaining, saying that Mr. Zhuang, your signing meetings are too few, and many provinces and cities have not been there. ”

There are few signing meetings, because Zhuang Yan is too lazy, after all, if he holds a signing meeting, most of his hands will be wasted. Generally, authors who sign a lot of books are here to sell books, but Zhuang Yan has no concerns about sales since the first book. The sales at the signing party, he still can't look at it.

However, since book friends have opinions, he also feels that he will make too few signings, and he does have to make up a few shows when he finds time, which can be regarded as a little benefit for fans.

It's just that the plan to hold signing meetings in other provinces and cities can't be done yet, and it's too tiring to run around.

"When you go back to the book launch, let's have a book signing session by the way. Zhuang Yan finally decided.

After the matter was discussed, Yao Qian left.

……

The electronic manuscript of "Sophie's World" was sent directly to the work mailbox of the publishing house, there were too many things yesterday, Yu Hai forgot about it for a while, and when he went to work at the publishing house the next day, there were many chores in the publishing house, and he was busy all morning, and when he opened the work mailbox at noon and saw the electronic manuscript, he patted his head and remembered this.

When he saw the electronic manuscript, he didn't read it for himself for the first time, but ran to Wang Lijian's office.

Wang Lijian was processing the documents, and when he saw Yu Hai coming, he was a little puzzled, "Old Yu, why did you come here at this time, the publishing house should be very busy, right?" ”

Yu Hai smiled, "Busy is busy, but there is something I want to show you." ”

"Oh, what's that?"

"Zhuang Yan's new book. ”

When Wang Lijian heard that it was Zhuang Yan's new book, his eyes lit up, "The new book has been sent?"

Yu Hai nodded, "Well, it was sent to me yesterday afternoon." ”

"Wasn't we together yesterday afternoon, have you read the new book?" Wang Lijian said in surprise.

Yu Hai said embarrassedly, "I forgot about this yesterday and just remembered it." ”

Wang Lijian said angrily, "You guy, can you forget this kind of thing?"

"Hehe, didn't I think I came to you as soon as I remembered it?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now, you send me a copy of the manuscript, and I'll take a look. Wang Lijian said.

Yu Hai smiled, "Okay, I'll send you a copy now, let's read it together." ”

Then he sent an electronic draft to Wang Lijian, and the two sat in the office and read it. The office was quiet, the two of them were very serious, but their expressions were different, Wang Lijian's expression was calm, but Yu Hai kept frowning.