The Zhonghua Bookstore here is not far away, take the subway to Zhonghua Gate and walk a few steps away.

When Zhuang Yan arrived, the bookstore had just opened, Zhuang Yan stood at the door of the bookstore and looked up, this bookstore is not small, a total of seven floors high.

The current bookstore is similar to the bookstore in Zhuang Yan's original world, and basically it is difficult for small bookstores to survive, and they can only sell textbooks for primary and secondary school students.

A bookstore is no longer just a simple bookstore, otherwise if you want to put books on the seventh floor, it can be comparable to a library, and most of the places in the bookstore are commercial areas, selling food and drink.

Walking into the bookstore, Zhuang Yan saw at a glance the poster of "Alive" in the hall on the first floor, with the cover of "Alive" printed on it, and some messy touting, such as "Strongly recommended by the president of Yenching University", "strongly recommended by the Chinese Society", and "16 years of pioneering works in the literary world", it seems that it should have been done just in the past two days, because the article of the Chinese Society was still the day before yesterday.

Go further in, don't deliberately look for it, there is a display shelf in the center of the hall, a group of people are surrounding the exhibition shelf, Zhuang Yan saw a stack of "Alive" in the first row of the exhibition shelf through the cracks.

However, Zhuang Yan is also a little puzzled, because "Alive" is sealed in plastic, even if there is a trial book, it is estimated that there are not too many.

Zhuang Yan scratched the corners of his eyebrows, could it be that I thought too much, these people didn't come to buy "Alive", they just came to read books?

With doubts, Zhuang Yan approached the crowd, and then heard a middle-aged man wearing glasses say to a young man next to him: "This "Alive" is indeed worth buying, I have read Mr. Cai Yuanpei's comments, his evaluation of this book - an epic masterpiece in another world, I very much agree with ......"

He said the truth, and the person next to him was unconscious, nodding his head while listening to him.

The young man next to him also excitedly agreed: "Yes, I like this book very much, especially in it, Fugui was arrested and ...... Zhuangding"

The middle-aged man hurriedly stopped him and said, "Hey, young man, many of my friends here haven't read this book, so it's not good for you to spoil like this." ”

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, the young man touched his head in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm too excited." ”

At this time, another girl pushed her glasses next to her and said: "I heard that the author Zhuang Yan is not very old, and his style of posting on FOF looks like a young man who catches the trend, and I don't know if it's true." ”

The middle-aged man touched his chin, "I'm not sure about this, it's normal for some old artists to be a little childlike, for example, Master Mark Twain, who just passed away a few years ago, he has a lot of interesting stories, once Mark Twain took the train to go to college to class, very anxious, but the train was too slow, when there was a ticket checker to check his ticket, he actually handed the other party a children's ticket, the ticket checker said, it's really interesting, I can't see that you are still a child." That's when Mark Twain replied, I'm not a kid now, but I was a kid when I bought the ticket, you know, the train is going too slowly. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the people around him burst into laughter, and even Zhuang Yan praised Mark Twain's witty humor in his heart.

The middle-aged man continued: "So, the masters are not necessarily as serious as we usually think, they are also very lifelike and humorous, and sometimes even more childlike than us. ”

The people around nodded silently, and they all felt that what he said made sense.

In fact, the example he gave is a bit special, because Mark Twain himself was a literary master known for his humorous satire.

At this time, Zhuang Yan also understood that this was a temporary "book club", where everyone exchanged their views and experiences on "Alive".

Of course, this is not a real book club, because most of the time the middle-aged man in the middle is talking, and the others are listening, perhaps it should be called a "propaganda meeting".

Standing on the side, watching a bunch of people discuss their works, this feeling is really special, this middle-aged man's braggadocio rhythm is also very good, basically to the point, the atmosphere is well grasped.

A bunch of people talked for a while, and the middle-aged man answered the phone and apologized to the people around him: "I'm sorry, I have a little matter, if we have a chance in the future, we will have a good exchange." ”

The middle-aged man left, and the others had nothing to communicate with, so they took a book from the display shelf and went to check out.

For a while, the people next to the display shelf were almost gone, and only a thin girl was still standing next to the display shelf, holding a trial book and reading.

The girl is thin and dark, and she should be a middle school student at her age, but today is midweek, and middle school students shouldn't have time to come out.

Zhuang Yan walked over slowly and glanced at her hand, she had already seen a lot, she should have seen the part where Fugui had just returned from the battlefield.

He just glanced at it, and the girl noticed it "alertly", she looked up and looked at Zhuang Yan, and Zhuang Yan immediately smiled back in a friendly way.

The girl blinked her eyes and said with some restraint, "Uh, I'm sorry, do you want to read this book?"

It turned out that she thought that Zhuang Yan was waiting for the book in her hand, and there was only this one trial book on the entire exhibition shelf, so if she wanted to read it, there was only this one.

Comprehending her thoughts, Zhuang Yan shook his head with a smile: "No, I'm just looking at it casually." ”

The girl breathed a sigh of relief, but listened to Zhuang Yan and asked again, "Do you like this book?"

"Huh?" the girl was stunned for a moment, and for some reason, he always felt that when the boy in front of him asked her if she liked the book, his expression was the same as when a chef asked her if she liked his cooking.

Wang Yue is a college student at the nearby School of Electronic Engineering, but she looks malnourished and thin, so many people will think she is a middle school student at first glance.

Although she studied electronic information technology, it did not prevent her from liking to read. A few days ago, her classmates who went to school in Yanjing recommended a book to her, which is the one she is holding now.

But "Alive" was only sold in Yanjing before, and she was reluctant to spend money if she wanted to watch it on the Internet, so when she knew that "Alive" was on sale nationwide today, she planned to come to the bookstore today.

She came early in the morning, just so that the first ones to go in and see the trial book.

She stood here for nearly an hour, and she was nervous for an hour, after all, she was not a selfish person, for fear that she would delay others because she occupied the trial book.

Fortunately, just a while ago, the people around me had been listening to the middle-aged man's discussion, and they didn't have time to take care of her.

She read extremely quickly, and the narrative of the book was not complicated, and this time she had already read the plot of Fugui's return from the battlefield, and most importantly, she had been fascinated by the book in less than an hour.

After coming back to her senses, Wang Yue nodded: "Well, I like it." ”