Du Qiu went out to enjoy the snow this time, driving the Jaguar XJ with a V12 engine, the quality and stability of the Jaguar is far inferior to Mercedes-Benz or Lexus, but the body is elegant and beautiful, the car logo is strong and stylish, the eye-catching ability is not worse than Porsche, but the public acceptance is higher, it can be called Chow Yun-fat in the car, only drove out three or four times, and it became the ultimate dream car in the hearts of many Yuncheng residents, so when he was shopping at the gate of the community, several seventeen or eighteen-year-old young people came over to take photos with the car.

"Those guys have a problem with their brains, so they don't take a photo with you, they go to take a photo with the car. ”

"No problem, because the car is prettier than me, and it's the only one in town. Du Qiu laughed, held up a bag of White Rabbit toffee, and asked the store owner, "How much is this?"

This store is relatively large, in addition to selling daily groceries, it also provides printing, copying and business card design and other services, the owner of the store loves computers, often surfs the Internet, and Du Qiu is an acquaintance who knows both online and offline, and said with a smile: "8 boss's money I am embarrassed to ask, come to help sign a name, how many bags to take directly." ”

"You're selling my signature as a profiteer on the Internet again?"

"No, it's the New Year, and I need to prepare some gifts for my nieces and nephews. The shopkeeper took out four notepads and a pen from the counter and said, "This book is very expensive, 20 yuan, and it is not discounted, it is said that these words on the cover are reprinted according to your authentic handwriting, isn't it?"

The product line of the Thinker Stationery Company is already very rich, there are many types of notebooks, diaries, account books, alumni records, etc., the price ranges from one dollar to hundreds of yuan, Du Qiu felt that the notepad in the hand of the store owner was very familiar, and after taking a closer look, he couldn't help but smile.

My mother is really good at business......

Not only did I reproduce the notepad I made by digging the first pot of gold, but even the price was reproduced......

At the beginning of the crossing, Du Qiu made a batch of kraft paper notepads, and wrote some fresh literary sentences or poems on the cover, at that time he did not know much about the price level in 1995, and casually set a price of 20 yuan, which was impossible to sell, but fortunately, Su Wenxiu was clever, grasped the mentality of the students who liked vassal elegance, secretly changed the concept, and sold it in the name of "calligraphy works", and sold a total of about 300 copies before and after.

When he became famous, these notebooks of very average quality and calligraphy became extremely popular, and during the Internet conference, there were local tyrants who offered a high price of 500 yuan a copy, and now it is estimated that it is even more expensive......

When signing the notepad, Du Qiu found that the Internet celebrity sentences on the cover were indeed "original" by himself, but the handwriting was different, three of them were written by himself, and the other was imitated, although the imitation was very similar, he recognized it at a glance as Du Chunhua's handwriting, and it was estimated that his mother could not find the original reprint, so he had to fake it himself.

"Is this notepad selling?"

"This kind of book can only be ordered online.,And 100 copies start.,Many netizens in the forum have bought it.,Every day someone posts to praise you for being eight buckets high.,The words are well written.,The words are also well-written.。 The shopkeeper handed the pen to Du Qiu and came up with an idea: "You are now more popular than the Four Heavenly Kings, and your figure and appearance are okay, you should take some sexy photo albums, such as wearing pants and standing on the roof of the building to bask in the sun, or smoking on the street bare-chested, etc., and then printed on the cover of the notepad, which is guaranteed to sell very well, and now those young boys and girls love this type the most." ”

It's a pity not to go to my sister's company to be a designer. ”

"Your sister's company design department only recruits college students, I have only just started Chinese, I can't get in, or will you help me intercede?"

"Forget it, if you go to work, in less than three days, you will be beaten to death by the people in the sales department and the production department. ”

After Du Qiu signed on a few notepads, he saw that the time was almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon, so he didn't delay any longer, stuffed two White Rabbit toffee into his mouth, and drove the Jaguar straight to Lin Dawei's Centrino Rider Club - in order not to disturb his work these days, every afternoon when the kindergarten is out, Du Chunhua will send someone to send Lin Jinyan to his father, and pick him up after 8 o'clock in the evening.

The business of the car club is very prosperous, the doors of the two stores are full of all kinds of vehicles waiting to be repaired or maintained, Du Qiu can't find a suitable parking space, Lin Dawei also has something to leave temporarily, he had to ask Huang Dashan, who is in charge of the store, to call Lin Jinyan out.

What Lin Jinyan came out of it was a woman in her 20s, with short hair in a neutral color, with an ordinary appearance, belonging to the type that you will forget immediately after taking a photo, this person's name is Zhang Xiuying, and she is the driver and bodyguard who helped her mother find after Du Qiu solved her grandfather's safety problem in September.

"Sister Ying, I've been bothering you these days. ”

"It's fine. Zhang Xiuying didn't say much, but she was very careful, hugged Lin Jinyan, put him in the back seat of the car, and then said: "Mr. Du, I'll drive." Mr. Su is also here, saying that he has something to do with you. ”

Du Qiu thought she was talking about Su Wenhai, but as soon as she pushed the car door, she saw Su Wenxiu walking out of the car repair shop with Lin Jinyan's small schoolbag, and was a little surprised, and asked, "Didn't you go to Dongying to investigate?"

"Just came back this morning. Are you done?"

"Only a small part of the work was done. Du Qiu opened the door of the back seat, let her go up first, and said, "I thought you would come back with Danfeng." ”

"She found a vocal teacher in Tokyo, and she had to take classes for three days and leave on the evening of the 30th, so I couldn't wait, so I came back first. After Su Wenxiu sat down, he hugged Lin Jinyan in his arms and asked, "Danfeng really wants to release a record?"

"She wanted to be a singer and just have fun. Du Qiu sat in and closed the car door, motioned for Zhang Xiuying to drive, and said with a smile: "If you like it, you can also release a record to try." ”

"I can't sing. ”

"Aunt Xiuxiu can draw and can publish comic books. Lin Jinyan was unscrupulous, and broke the news loudly: "Aunt Xiuxiu has drawn a lot of uncle's stories, which is beautiful." ”

Du Qiu was surprised, looked at Su Wenxiu and asked, "What story did you draw?"

Su Wenxiu's face flushed slightly, stroked the hair around her ear with her fingers, and said, "It's nothing, it's just that you drew some of the things you did before, and you played with it." ”

"Go back and show me. ”

"Good. Su Wenxiu whispered, and then changed the topic: "Sister Chunhua thinks that the thinker is too awkward, which is not conducive to promotion, and cannot show the company's product characteristics, and wants to change the name, do you know?"

When the company was founded, there was only one product, Thinker Notebook, so the Chinese translation of "Thinker" was used as the company name, and now the company has dozens of products, and most of them are daily groceries, which has nothing to do with thought, Du Qiu felt that it was good to change, and said: "My sister mentioned it to me once, have you thought of a new name?"

"What do you think of Lingxi? It means that we have a heart-to-heart connection with users, and the product makes them 100% satisfied. ”

"Does that one have a good heart? Sounds good, very cultured, if you think it's good, use this." Du Qiu didn't care much about the name of the company, and asked instead: "Did you and my sister reproduce the kraft notepad we made at the beginning of the year?"

"Yes, did you see it?" Su Wenxiu grinned and said, "Do you guess how much the notepads we made back then can sell for now?"

"How much?"

"If the cover is written with ancient poems, it is worth about 800 to 1,000, and if you write your original sentences, at least 2,000 a copy. Su Wenxiu shook his finger and said, "If the cover says that only love and food can not be disappointed, it can be sold for 1 million." ”

"Which idiot would spend 1 million ......" Du Qiu was stunned for a moment, then understood in seconds, and asked: "Which food company is jointly engaged in marketing with you?"

"Nestle. ”

"It turned out to be one of the world's top 500, no wonder it was so willing to spend money. Du Qiu leaned back in his chair and said, "Have you taken back all the notepads we made before?" including this love and food. ”

"You have written a total of 4 books on love and food, of which I did not sell 3 copies, and one is in the hands of Wang Huihui. With a sly smile on her face, Su Wenxiu said: "We made a total of 387 copies at that time, and 251 copies have been recovered, and then remove the damaged ones for various reasons, only about 100 copies are really circulating outside, and most of them are concentrated in the hands of a few collectors." ”

"What kind of collector, is it a speculator?" Du Qiu sneered and said: "My calligraphy has nothing to show for it, and I didn't write it seriously at that time, it's a mess, there is no value for collection at all, only the value of speculation." ”

"I think your writing is better than many calligraphers. ”

"That's because you were very poor at the time, and when you saw anything that could be sold for money, you would think it looked good......"

In the midst of the small talk between the two, Jaguar arrived at the stationery company's office building, which was still the same one it rented when it first started, but the size of the Snapdragon was much larger, from one office to two floors, and this was only the management and design department, and the sales and production department moved to another office building.

Du Chunhua was in a meeting, Du Qiu took Lin Jinyan to Su Wenxiu's office to sit for a while, and saw a photo frame on her desk, the photos in it were not family members or herself, but an empty, shabby office, and said, "Isn't this the office we rented on the campus of Yunnan University?"

"Well, now that building has been demolished. ”

"Why didn't I shoot people, only this office. ”

"You weren't in Cloud City when you quit the lease at that time. Su Wenxiu said while playing with Lin Jinyan: "My brother and I feel that without you, it is not interesting to take a group photo, so we only took photos of the office." ”

"Is the negative still there? wash me a souvenir. Du Qiu put down the photo frame and asked, "I just said that the painting you painted is not here?"

"In. ”

Su Wenxiu has a gentle temperament, but she never twists and pretentiousness, and generously takes out a painting book and hands it to Du Qiu, after Du Qiu opens it, when he sees the picture on the first page, the corner of his mouth shows a smile, because the content of that painting is the scene he traveled through the library that night.

Blue T-shirt, gray casual shorts, low-top canvas shoes......

Confused eyes, embarrassed smiles, trembling bodies......

It's really like a world away......