This is Zhuang Yan's most tiring dream, because while listening to Kafka's story, he has to concentrate on the questions he will ask at any time.

At first, Zhuang Yan just nodded, but after nodding his head a few times, Kafka was reluctant, and he had to ask him to answer the question seriously, otherwise he would not continue.

Zhuang Yan could only answer his questions seriously, but this kid's questions were always one after another, and some of the questions made Zhuang Yan a little embarrassed.

For example, there is a passage in which he said that he met the cherry blossoms, the cherry blossoms were sleeping next to him, he stared at people's chests and his eyes were straight, and he asked Zhuang Yan seriously, "Why is that part of the body hardened?"

For this question, Zhuang Yan is really difficult to answer, he really wants to find a physiology teacher to talk to Kafka carefully, but at this time, only Zhuang Yan can answer Kafka's questions.

"There's always going to be some magical reason. Zhuang Yan could only reply hesitantly.

But the kid continued to ask, "Are you always hard?"

"Not always, occasionally. ”

"Oh, but I'm always there. ”

……

When he woke up the next day, Zhuang Yan felt like he hadn't slept and had fought a battle.

To be honest, Haruki Murakami's writing itself is not concise enough, and there will always be some wordy words, such as the book "Sheep Hunting Adventure".

Compared to that one, this one, seriously, is already very concise, but it has been stretched out by Kafka's kid.

After getting up, Zhuang Yan washed up first, then ran downstairs to buy breakfast, and ran to the study after coming back to eat.

It's not for "Kafka by the Sea", because this book can't be written yet, and it has to wait until all the dreams are finished, and Zhuang Yan constructs the whole story in his mind before writing.

If you put pen to paper now, should Kafka's idle words be written down or not?

Anyway, since "Metamorphosis", everything in the dream is imprinted in the mind, and there will be no forgetting, and there will be no difference between writing now and writing at this point after a while.

The reason why he ran to the study so early was because he wanted to turn on the computer and surf the Internet to watch today's news, and by the way, he also went to the wheat field TV to take a look.

After yesterday's public beta, there is still a live broadcast, and I don't know how popular Wheat Field TV is now.

In addition, his "The Little Prince" and "The Old Man and the Sea" were released yesterday, and I didn't pay special attention to it yesterday, so I want to go online today to see what the situation is.

But before he could turn on the computer, Wang Lijian called over.

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Brother Wang called me so early in the morning, he didn't ask me if I had breakfast. ”

"Haha, I know you're waiting for news at home, so I called you early in the morning, so I didn't disturb your dreams. ”

"You also know that I was waiting for news at home, and I stayed up all night without sleeping, just waiting for your call. ”

"Ziyan, you're really joking. Without further ado, I'll give you a brief briefing. ”

"Don't. Zhuang Yan hurriedly said, "Briefing, it's a report, how can you say it's a report." ”

Wang Lijian said with a smile: "Then let me tell you about the situation, first of all, the sales of "The Old Man and the Sea" are very good, better than I imagined, yesterday sold 1.5 million copies in one day, of which the United States is the best, selling more than 400,000, nearly one-third." ”

"It's no surprise that there are a lot of them. Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter whether there are more people, according to what you say, we Chinese are five or six times more than others, and I don't see sales much better than them." At the end of the day, it's your book that is on the right track. Wang Lijian said.

Zhuang Yan didn't agree with Wang Lijian's point of view, and whether this book was the way for Americans or not could not be seen in a day.

Books only started to sell yesterday, and even if I bought the book and went back to read it and liked it, it will take time for this emotion to ferment and spread.

Therefore, Zhuang Yan believes that the reason why this book has sold so well on the first day in the United States is entirely due to emotional squeezing.

At Christmas, Americans have already done a petition to hope that the book will be sold globally.

But in the end, the wish was not fulfilled, so these foreigners are looking forward to the book being launched these days, and now that it is online, it will definitely explode.

In other words, although today's sales are high, it is likely to cause a situation of high opening and low walking. Because the potential of the market has been consumed too much on the first day today, the market momentum behind it will definitely not be able to keep up.

However, although he did not agree with Wang Lijian's point of view, Zhuang Yan did not refute it, but said with a smile: "I don't know if it's the right way, good sales are enough." But what I'm most curious about is not the best selling places, but the worst selling places. ”

"I really don't know, the book has been sold in more than 100 countries, large and small, I looked at it, and only a few copies were sold, such as the Vatican, such as Tuvalu, which is a small country. Wang Lijian said.

"Such a small country, you have also counted, is there a must for this?"

"Is it necessary, isn't it all a matter of incidentality, anyway, there are not a few books in total, and it doesn't bother. However, among the larger countries, Neon Country has surprisingly low sales, only selling more than 40,000 copies. ”

Zhuang Yan narrowed his eyes and suddenly smiled: "Don't they just watch the Chinese version, it's normal to have little sales." ”

"It's not normal, South Korea has sold nearly 100,000 copies, they all read the Chinese version, but this sales gap is too big, you must know that the population of Neon Country is two or three times that of South Korea." ”

In fact, Zhuang Yan can probably guess why this situation occurs, which starts from the book "The Old Man and the Sea" and the current situation of Neon Country.

The book "The Old Man and the Sea" preaches a strong will and unrivaled courage, a miracle dedicated to healing. It is the countries and people that have been hurt, such as China, the United States, France, these countries are all countries that have been at war recently, and many of these countries have not yet recovered from the aftermath of war.

If you have to find a reason for the good sales of the United States, it probably has something to do with this, their country has developed rapidly after the formal restoration of reunification, and has become the world's largest power in one fell swoop, far ahead of other countries.

But the economic crisis of the past few years has suddenly slowed down their momentum, turning them from the world's first economy to the world's second economy, and succumbing to China.

This powerful gap has frustrated many Americans, and the economic depression has made many people's lives a mess.

At this time, they need a book like "The Old Man and the Sea" to cheer them on.