On the afternoon of July 15, Du Qiu went against his previous style of pursuing simplicity, dragged large bags of luggage, left the United States from San Francisco Airport, and after a nine-hour flight, arrived at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, preparing to transfer back to Beijing from here, and by the way, sign a publishing contract for "White Night Walking". Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Publishing a novel on the Internet is not Du Qiu's first initiative, but there are few works of such a high caliber as "White Night Walking," which stopped serializing after he went to the United States in early June, but the more this happens, the more addictive it becomes, and in the month of the break, there has been more and more discussion about the novel on the Japanese Internet, and it has spread to traditional media such as newspapers and magazines.

In 1995, computers and Internet fees were relatively expensive, the threshold for netizens was relatively high, and most of them belonged to the social elite, although the number was far less than in 2016, but the social impact was not small, and Du Qiu himself was also famous, so when Komatsu Aiko helped contact the publication, she soon received invitations from many publishing houses.

After Du Qiu read the list, he almost didn't hesitate, and chose Shueisha, firstly because "White Night Walking" was published by this publishing house before the time travel, and secondly, because this publishing house has a lot of good memories, and he wants to get some small gifts from them to satisfy his childhood dreams.

"Mr. Toshi, welcome to Tokyo. ”

"Aiko, when did you go back to Tokyo?"

"Just the day before yesterday. After a few words of greeting, Aiko Komatsu introduced two Shueisha editors to him, and said: "This is the senior editor Masashi Kawamura, and this is the assistant Mai Takahashi." ”

"Please take care of us when we meet for the first time. ”

Masashi Kawamura is a bad old man in his 50s, Mai Takahashi is a woman in her 30s, with an ordinary appearance, wearing glasses, looking taciturn, holding a rectangular box the size of a sketchpad, Du Qiu greeted them, and asked straight to the point: "The things in this box, are they mine?"

"Yes, Mr. Du, please. Mai, hurry up and take it out. ”

Mai Takahashi laid the box flat on the seat in the rest area, opened it, took out a beautiful comic poster, carried the corner with both hands, and held it up to show Du Qiu, the poster depicted five men in red basketball uniforms, and in the lower right corner there was a black pen handwritten "slam-dunk" and the words "Yuhiko Inoue" and "July 3, 1995".

In 1995, "Slam Dunk" was still serialized, and it was the most popular anime work in Japan, and of course, it was also one of Du Qiu's favorite anime works. ”

"Hey, I'll do it. ”

After Mai Takahashi showed the poster of "Slam Dunk", she took out several manga posters signed by the author from the box, such as "Dragon Ball" by Akira Toriyama, "City Hunter" by Tsukasa Hojo, "Saint Seiya" by Masami Madada, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" by Hirohiko Araki, "Yuyu Hakusho" by Yoshihiro Tomiyatsu, "Cherry Maruko" by Miki Miura, and "Sailor Moon" by Naoko Takeuchi.

These manga are all published by Shueisha, and it is not difficult to get a poster signed by the author, but the last one Mai Takahashi took out is a bit interesting, because it is a Lingbali poster signed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, from "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which began serialization in February 1995, and the publisher of this manga is Shueisha's competitor Kadokawa Shoten.

"I like it, trouble Mr. Kawamura. Du Qiu stared at Ling Boli for a while, motioned to Mai Takahashi to put away the poster, then took out the contract from his backpack and said, "Now let's sign a contract." ”

The publishing contract Du Qiu has already found a lawyer in the United States to review, as long as he signs the exchange of texts, Kawamura Masashi saw him so happy, after getting the contract, he was very excited, and said with a smile: "Mr. Du, I have a good relationship with some media, for the sake of the promotion of the new book, can we do an interview? Many readers are ...... about your previous experience in Japan."

"Mr. Kawamura, I'm busy and tired right now and need a break. Du Qiu refused, and said directly: "If there is nothing else, please go back." ”

Masashi Kawamura didn't expect him to change his face suddenly, he said a few times, and wanted to persuade again, but when he saw Aiko Komatsu shaking his head lightly on the side, he stood up and handed the box containing the poster to Du Qiu with both hands, and then took his assistant to leave.

"I've heard that editors in the Japanese literary and artistic circles have a lot of power and are not very kind to new authors, but Mr. Kawamura is very humble. Du Qiu noticed the eye contact just now and said in Chinese instead: "Shueisha specially invited you from the capital to Tokyo to meet me, I am really flattered. ”

"Mr. Du's "White Night Walking" is so well written, almost not even a single punctuation point needs to be changed, it is not an ordinary rookie author, of course Mr. Kawamura must be humble, otherwise he will be scolded to death by his boss. Aiko Komatsu took out a ticket from her bag and explained with a smile: "I have a good friend who got married yesterday and was going to attend her wedding, so I went back to Tokyo, and it has nothing to do with Shueisha, but I happened to be going back to China to work today, and I was on the same flight as Mr. Du, so I helped introduce it by the way." ”

"Congratulations, congratulations. ”

"Thank you. Komatsu Aiko has often communicated with Du Qiu by email these days, and she is no longer a stranger, she took out another magazine and said: "Mr. Du, there are several weekly magazines in Japan that have reported your deeds, look, even "Weekly Wenchun" has it." ”

"Weekly Bunchun" is one of the largest circulation gossip magazines in Japan, with the selling point of exposing the money scandals and sex scandals of celebrities from all walks of life such as politics, economics, and entertainment.

Nima, similar to "Detective Conan......

"Detective Conan" seems to have been serialized since 1994? I forgot to ask for a Conan poster signed by Gomasa Aoyama......

"What does this 2 billion mean?"

"Isn't Mr. Du the company valued at $20 million?" said Aiko Komatsu, who seemed to be familiar with finance, "At the current exchange rate, it is about 1.75 billion yen, but 2 billion is more pleasant." ”

Since the yen peaked at 79.75:1 against the dollar on April 19, it has depreciated in the form of a small shock, and has now fallen to around 88:1, and Du Qiu's money in Morgan Stanley's account has doubled again, from $1.6 million to $3.3 million.

Du Qiu looked at the content of the article and found that this reporter put together his interview on "Wired" and some plots in "White Night Walking", speculated indiscriminately, and grandiosed, which was meaningless except to make the facts more confusing, so he gave it back to Aiko Komatsu and said with a smile: "It's very well written." ”

Komatsu Aiko originally thought he would be angry, but he didn't expect it to be very relaxed, and asked with a gossip on his face, "Are these speculations true?"

"Of course it's true, I'll tell you a secret. Du Qiu worked hard in the United States for a month, and it was time for leisure again, he felt that Komatsu Aiko's exaggerated expression was very interesting, so he leaned over and whispered: "After killing people, eat them, you can master the skills of these people, "White Night Walking" was written after I ate a writer." ”

After he finished speaking, he moved his upper and lower jaws, making his teeth rattle, and Komatsu Aiko was terrified, holding the magazine to protect her chest, shrinking back, and complaining: "I hate it! Mr. Du, you are so scary." ”

Du Qiu laughed, spread his hands flat, held the back of the bench, stretched his legs forward, and said in a very relaxed posture: "Aiko, you are so cute." ”

"Really? Thank you. ”

"If only you weren't a spy. ”

"Mr. Du, I'm really not a spy. Aiko Komatsu sat up straight, raised her voice, and clarified: "As a descendant of Komatsu with a knife, I will never be a spy!"

Yo, this girl is not small......

Komatsu Obito is one of the famous "Ten Masters of the Restoration" in the Meiji Restoration era in Japan, with a prominent family background and outstanding talents, but he died young, died in the 3rd year of Meiji, and failed to survive to the era of power, so he was called "illusory prime minister" by later generations.

When Du Qiu traveled to Japan as an exchange student, it was a hit in a drama called "Atsuhime", Atsuhime was the wife of the last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the relationship with Komatsu with a knife was a childhood sweetheart, and the relationship was ambiguous, so there were a lot of his plots in the TV series, so I knew such a person.

"So, Tokiwaken is your family's property?"

"Huh?" Komatsu Aiko's eyes widened, and she said with surprise and joy, "Mr. Du, you actually know Tokiwa-xuan?"

"Anyone who has lived in Tokyo knows about such a famous snack chain as Tokiwaken. Du Qiu flicked his fingers and said, "Your family's annual turnover is about 2 billion yen, right?"

"You, you, you......" Komatsu Aiko was even more surprised, pointed at him and said: "Mr. Du, you still say that I am a spy, I think you are a spy!"

It's not a spy, it's just that in 20 years, any information on the Internet can be found......

After Komatsu's death, his son was made an earl by Emperor Meiji, and his grandson was also an earl, and he was very active in the economy, and in 1922, taking advantage of the great development of Japan's railway construction, he established a food company that sold bento on the platform, and this company was called Tokiwaken, which still existed in 2016, and operated a chain of snack bars and izakayas, with an annual turnover of more than 3 billion yen.

But don't think that it's easy to make money selling bento in Japan, Komatsu's grandson with a knife has no heirs, so he inherited a son from the Japanese Navy Minister, Saigo, who has the title of marquis, as an adopted son, and there are two major political celebrities as backers, and it is difficult to think of being underdeveloped......

It is indeed unlikely that a woman with such a family background and wealth will go to China to be an inconsequential little spy...... (To be continued.) )