"Xiao Gang, why are there so many people over there?"

November 4th is Sunday, which is also the day of the release of "Yushiro". Qin Gang and his sister were walking on the street, and her sister was attracted by the long queue across the road.

"Over there......"

Qin Gang casually glanced at the signboard, which read the words Oriental Book Alliance chain, and he smiled: "That's the store of the Eastern Book League, probably a signing session of a certain author." ”

Qin Gang is 26 years old this year, an IT coder who has just graduated for two years, and his daily life is very monotonous. He goes to work when he opens his eyes, goes to sleep when he closes his eyes, repeats himself at work and at home every day, and almost gives up all extracurricular activities, so he doesn't know what is going on in the bookstore, but based on experience, it should be a signing by a slightly popular brick-and-mortar writer.

"Is that so?"

Qin Gang's sister came to Pengcheng for the first time, and the bookstore in her hometown had also held a book signing, she had participated in it once, and she understood that the signing was equal to boredom. As soon as she heard that it was a signing, she took her brother and left.

Just walked a few hundred meters, suddenly a group of people crowded on the side of the road, this time she first looked at the name of the store, sighed: "Pengcheng is really a big city, it is different from my hometown, usually at home can not see once a year signing sales can be seen everywhere here." ”

Qin Gang frowned when he heard his sister's words. It stands to reason that those writers will stagger the days when they hold the signing, and even if they can't be wrong, they won't be so close, unless the two have a grudge and deliberately run on it.

Looking sideways, the name of this bookstore is Wami Bookstore. Although he only runs at home and at work, he still knows a little about the two bookstores of Hemei and Dongshumeng. Hemei's main women's and health magazines, Dongshumeng's main business, comics, there is no conflict between the two at all, if it's really a mutual struggle between authors, you'll have fun watching it.

It just so happened that Qin Gang was still worried about where to take his sister to play today, and now he has a good place to go, "Sister, why don't we go over and have a look." ”

Crossing the street, they were about to enter the bookstore when they were stopped by the clerk.

"What, is the store a bully?"

The clerk, dressed in the uniform costume of the bookstore, politely explained: "Sorry, two guests, I am not stopping you, but I want to tell you and this beautiful lady one thing." ”

Qin Gang looked at the other party's smile and nodded: "Say it." ”

"Today is the day when the inaugural issue of the newly founded publication "Xibai" by Mr. Qingbai is released, as long as you bring this bracelet and don't take any copy of "Xibai", you can go in."

Qin Gang and his sister glanced at each other, and my sister stood up and asked: "This is the first time I know that there are restrictions on what customers can buy, and what kind of bracelet, why don't the people who go in next to them need to bring it, but our sister and brother want to bring it?" ”

The waiter said politely: "Two, I'm very sorry, the customers over there are all people queuing up to buy "Xibai", and most of them are buyers who will leave after buying "Xibai", so naturally they don't need to bring this bracelet with purchase restrictions." ”

"All of them?"

Qin Gang visually measured the length of the line, and estimated that there were at least three or four hundred people queuing, the people in front left one in about half a minute, and the number of people in the back continued to increase, and after a while, the length of the line was not short at all, but more and more. Suddenly, he thought of the long queue he had just seen passing by the East Book League, and couldn't help but ask, "The people queuing up at the door of the East Book League over there are also to buy "Xibai"?" ”

The waiter smiled and said, "I think so!" ”

"Good guy, it has sold so many since it was first published, there must be very famous people in the magazine......"

In the waiter's introduction, the two had a certain understanding of "Xibai", Qin Gang was about to go to the queue, but his sister asked another question: "If we go in now, can we see the sample magazine?" ”

The waiter's voice was still gentle, showing good quality: "I'm very sorry, because the sales of "Yubai" are very hot, and this bookstore has not prepared any samples. ”

In the end, the two did not enter the store, but ran to the end of the line and began to line up.

The inaugural issue of the magazine is not attractive, but I heard that the most popular anime "EVA" from some time ago will be serialized in "Yushiro".

In the first two months, this work appeared frequently in his chats with colleagues, especially in September, when the company had fewer and fewer colleagues working overtime at night, and there were even seven or eight people left at the end of the month, which was in stark contrast to August. However, he is very grateful to these colleagues who refuse to work overtime, because because their boss has increased their overtime pay many times throughout September, and finally even reached five times. In a month, he earned 40,000 yuan, and with the previous accumulation, with the help of his parents, he finally had the down payment to buy a house in his hometown.

Because of this, he missed the premiere and rerun of "EVA", which was a regret for a while.

After queuing for nearly an hour, it was finally the turn of the two of them, who paid the money and took the books and left.

Even if it was a big lump of magazines in his hand, Qin Gang still scolded "profiteers" in a low voice. Two magazines, which cost him two hundred dollars. He secretly decided, "I'll never buy it again." ”

I found a park with my sister, looked at the magazines on their legs, Qin Gang opened the magazines, "I want to see if this hundred yuan is worth it." ”

Tearing off the plastic packaging on the outside, three stacked posters fell out of a three- or four-hundred-page magazine, and he was not interested in the poster, so he put the poster aside.

Just as he was about to open the magazine, a middle-aged man with a somewhat obscene appearance suddenly leaned over next to him.

"What for?"

Thinking that this person was going to harass his sister, Qin Gang stood in front of his sister and glared at the man: "Don't get any closer, be careful I call the police." ”

"Don't get excited, don't get excited!"

The middle-aged man stopped approaching, put the bag on his back on the ground, and introduced himself: "I am a collector, if you two don't like the poster that comes with this magazine, then I am willing to bid ten yuan a piece to buy it." ”

looked at this man and saw that he was indeed not aggressive, Qin Gang was about to agree: "Okay, I'll ......"

"Wait!"

At this time, Qin Gang's sister suddenly stood up: "Don't you want to know why this man is willing to buy a poster for ten yuan?" You know, in the wholesale market, a poster of similar material is about a dollar, even if it is rare, it will not exceed five yuan, and I suspect that this poster is worth more than that. ”

"Actually, I'm just a fanatic of Teacher Qingbai!"

The middle-aged man said quietly: "I also learned from Teacher Qingbai's Weibo that these posters were all handwritten and printed by Teacher Qingbai, so I will give such a high price, are you willing to sell them to me?" ”

The two didn't find the problem in this person's statement, and after looking at the poster in the magazine, except for a girl wearing a driver's suit with short blue hair, there was nothing particularly good, and the two discussed it, and sold the poster to the middle-aged man.

"Yes, earn back 60 yuan!"

"Yes, two more fools have been fooled."

……