Chapter 10 The whole city is surging
Wednesday.
The new romance tabloids sold out for the first time, and a kind of "Qin-seeking fever" quietly arose among the whole people.
For the first time, many people found that the sales of this tabloid had spread silently into their lives, and five out of ten people at the breakfast stall were reading the same newspaper; Walking on the road, five out of ten pedestrians are walking with the same newspaper in their hands; In the office, half of the people read the same newspaper before going to work; Even when I got home, I could find that the newspaper in my neighbor's hand was exactly the same as the one in my own hand.
So, someone started trying to make small talk.
At the breakfast stall, diner A asks diner B:
"Lao Wang, do you also read this newspaper?"
"Yes, this novel is not bad, pass the time......"
At school, Student A asks Student B:
"Orange, do you look at this too? You see I have it too."
"Really? I watched it before you......"
In the company, employee A asks employee B:
"Hey, this newspaper seems to be very popular lately......
"Yes, yes, I think so too, but the Xun Qin Ji above is really good......"
Even when I returned home, I would find that my neighbors were reading the newspaper, so several like-minded neighbors got together and began to comment on the newspaper and the protagonist of the novel.
"This novel is really imaginative......"
"Xiang Shaolong, there is a problem with the name heroine, like a man......"
"It must be intentional, maybe there's some mystery hidden......"
"Well, what the hell is this newspaper, it didn't even write who the author was......"
……
Thursday.
The owner of the newsstand found that the number of readers who bought the newspaper was several times that of usual, and they all indicated that they wanted to buy the "New Romance Tabloid Newspaper".
Instant explosion!
Hundreds of newspapers sold out in an instant!
This momentum surprised all the newsstand owners, and they began to consider taking a few hundred more newspapers with the newspaper office, while comforting readers who came to buy the newspaper but did not buy it, and finally the new romance tabloid a few days ago also took advantage of the situation.
Friday.
A spring breeze came overnight.
The whole city of Flower City began to fall into a newspaper fever.
The new romance tabloid and the serialized novel "Xun Qin Ji" began to become a popular entertainment and leisure in Huacheng.
All readers know that a third-rate small newspaper appeared in Huacheng, this newspaper has a unique size, rough paper, but the novel "Xun Qin" serialized on it is very exciting, and it has become everyone's new love.
All peers know that there is a dark horse in the newspaper industry, which takes novels as the core, breaks into the sales charts of newspapers with free sales and quantity dumping, and becomes a newspaper upstart.
Everyone is waiting for the follow-up, readers are waiting for the follow-up plot of the novel, and peers are waiting for the follow-up action of the newspaper.
Saturday and Sunday.
This heat continues to heat up!
Newsstand owners are already complaining, and the number of new romance tabloids is far from keeping up with the supply.
Bai Ningyuan was also complaining, three days before the newspaper was released, the newspaper began to receive letters and contributions from readers one after another; Four days after the newspaper was launched, it was as if it exploded in an instant, and the number of letters and contributions from readers skyrocketed, almost exponentially, and the two of them could not cope with it at all.
Wang Qiushi and Ye Lele were in charge, and Bai Ningyuan had no choice but to make a decision and recruit two temporary editors.
On weekends, Wang Qiushi and Ye Lele made regular rounds and were instantly shocked.
The small office was already full of four people, busy reviewing and processing readers' letters, and the space in the office had been completely occupied by dense envelopes, estimated to be in the thousands, and the fat cat orange had no living space, so he could only squat pitifully on the table and couldn't move.
"How so?"
Wang Qiushi covered his eyes, feeling that the scene in front of him was a bit miserable.
Bai Ningyuan saw the two bosses coming, Rao is she has always been steady, and she couldn't help but complain:
"If you don't come again, I'm going to visit! There's so much work right now, I'm going to rent the office next door, and I'm waiting for your approval......"
"Batch! Batch! …… It's up to you! ”
Wang Qiushi hurriedly responded.
He didn't want to be in a small office every time he came, and he didn't want to be called over by Bai Ningyuan to do hard labor if he was not careful.
The office was cramped and crowded, and the two of them had to come out to talk.
"Well, nothing is a big deal, right?"
Wang Qiushi asked first, after all, it was the first newspaper he was responsible for.
"There are no big problems, there are many small things......"
Bai Ningyuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and said:
"The official price next week, the tentative retail price is one yuan, and the first issue is 50,000, by the way, have you thought of a pen name?"
Wang Qiushi had a little headache and said:
"Can you do without a pen name?"
Bai Ningyuan said unceremoniously:
"Yes, then the real name!"
Wang Qiushi was helpless, racked his brains and thought for a long time, and finally decided:
"Let's call Ms. Huacheng!"
"Ms. Flower City?"
Bai Ningyuan frowned, he didn't expect this kind of answer at all, but he quickly figured it out, after all, it was a romance novel, and this feminine pen name was more in line with the style of the work and the reader's impression.
Gee!
Bai Ningyuan shook his head, as if he had thought of the impact of this pen name in the future.
"By the way, when will I get paid?"
Wang Qiushi thought of his deflated wallet, and suddenly hated itchy.
If Ye Lele hadn't stayed at his house temporarily, he would have starved to death at home in the past few days.
Bai Ningyuan also had a preliminary understanding of the situation of these two bosses, a rich second-generation local tyrant girl who was never short of money; A middle-aged author of three generations of poverty, with only clothes left on his body, I really don't know how these two people came together.
"Next week! You'll be paid for your manuscript next week! Plus consultant fees! ”
As he spoke, Bai Ningyuan had a smile on his face, and he inexplicably remembered the days when he couldn't even pay the rent a few days ago.
Wang Qiushi didn't pay attention to Bai Ningyuan's expression, and felt an inexplicable relief in his heart, and said:
"It's a deal! I'm poor! ”
The two were talking in a whisper in the corridor, but they didn't know that the people working at Huayu Magazine opposite were looking up, and their eyes were inexplicably complicated.
Yes, if you want to say that the mood is the most complicated, it is naturally Huayu Publishing House.
For seven days, the changes in the small newspaper across the street were completely in their eyes.
On the first day, when New Romance launched a new newspaper, they just shook their eyebrows, thinking that the newspaper was starting a final round of dying throes and no one paid attention at all;
The next day, some of Huayu's employees brought a new romance tabloid, and everyone was surprised: it turned out to be free!
On the third day, Hua Yu's employees' expressions fluctuated a little, after all, the circulation of the new romance tabloid was rising, and it seemed to be going to be popular. At this time, the sensitive ones discovered that the above novels were very good, and they opened up four new genres!
On the fourth day, the new romance tabloid was released! Huayu's employees began to whisper, and everyone had such a newspaper on their desks.
On the fifth day, Huayu's employees were silent, and they saw that the opposite newspaper had received a large number of letters from readers, and they couldn't keep busy! It was on this day that the presidents and editors-in-chief of Huayu finally noticed the situation and began to study.
But when they saw "Xun Qin" and the four new types of romance novels, they inexplicably felt a wave of fear.
On the weekend, all the executives of Huayu did not take a vacation.
The conference room was silent, and at this time, they also saw the culprit of all this:
Wang Qiushi.