Chapter 147: The Spread of Fame
Song Rao's phone call is usually after half past ten in the evening, because she knows that Tong Yan has already finished school and returned to her residence at this time, so it is more convenient to answer her call.
has just been separated for two days, but Song Rao has endless things to say to Tong Yan, about a meal she had at her mother's house, about her mother who is still single, about how she went through the admission procedures, about her first accommodation, and about her new classmates and roommates and the upcoming college military training.
Most of the time, Song Rao is talking, Tong Yan is listening, Tong Yan's life is too monotonous, except for going to school, there is nothing else, and Song Rao has just entered the metropolis and entered one of the most famous universities in China, and her gorgeous life has just begun, so she has endless topics to Tong Yan, like a magpie that has just been released from the cage.
All Tong Yan could do was to be a perfect listener, and it wasn't until it was almost twelve o'clock that Song Rao was a little sleepy, and the two ended the long call.
Song Rao went back to the bedroom to sleep, and at this time she left two impressions on her sisters in the bedroom, first, her mobile phone was very expensive, and second, she should have a boyfriend.
After hanging up the phone, Tong Yan immediately turned on the computer and started working.
A phone call took him too much time, and just overturned the original Western magic setting and determined the writing method of Xiuzhen, Tong Yan's mind had a lot of fresh ideas, and he couldn't wait to hit the keyboard, plus the update of the chapter of Rage Thunder that had to be completed, he might be busy until late today.
In the team running and exercising in the morning, in the phalanx of Class 5 of the second year of high school, Zhou Hao softened Sun Hao beside him and said that he was wrong.
"Why are you wrong?" Sun Hao was a little baffled, and the team had already begun to run at this time.
Zhou Hao panted as he ran, "I said that Tong Yan Wuji can't be a high school student, it can't be our school." This is wrong. ”
"I checked on the Internet yesterday, Tong Yanwuji is indeed a high school student, in his third year of high school this year, and it is inferred on the Internet that he is likely to be from our school."
Sun Hao said proudly: "What do I say, my fellow countryman won't lie to me, look over there." It was the team of the 2nd class of the third year of high school, and he was in there, and when I waited for recess, I took his book and went to him to ask for an autograph, do you want to join us? ”
Zhou Hao's body was not as good as Sun Hao, and he was a little out of breath, "Well, let's talk about it when I go back to the classroom." ”
In the classroom of Class 5 of the second year of high school, Zhou Hao held the thick book of "Furious Thunder" and said earnestly: "Do you want to take this book to him for an autograph?"
"What's wrong?" Sun Hao didn't know why.
"What's wrong!" Zhou Hao shook his head. "Do you know that this is a pirated book, what Internet writers hate the most is piracy, you take this book to him for an autograph, and he doesn't despise it."
Sun Hao felt that Zhou Hao made sense, "Then what should I do, I really like this book, and I admire him even more, I just didn't know it before." Do you have to pretend not to know now? ”
Zhou Hao continued: "I also read part of this novel yesterday, and to be honest, it's really good. Worthy of his current results, plus it is our senior brother, I am now a fan of Wuji, and it would be useless if I couldn't get his signature, so I would go to Xinhua Bookstore at noon. Let's see if there's anyone selling this book. ”
"Can you buy traditional Chinese novels in the mainland?" Sun Hao couldn't help asking.
Zhou Hao said: "You are too underestimated to look down on Tong Yan Wuji and his "Raging Thunder", this book has been released in simplified physical form, it should be sold in bookstores, if not, I can buy it online."
Last night, Zhou Hao completely figured out the bottom of Tong Yan.
One morning, Sun Hao had been resisting the urge to go to see his idol, and it was noon. Zhou Hao, who was studying on a day, rode his bicycle to Xinhua Bookstore to find books.
The first print run of the first volume of "Raging Thunder" is only 10,000, and Tong Yan can only get 10,000 copies of royalty income for the time being, and the actual first print of the publishing company may be slightly higher than 10,000, but it will not be too high, after all, it is the first volume, and it has not accepted the test of the market.
The main market for domestic books is in large cities, and half of the more than 10,000 copies of the first printing of Furious Thunder will be consumed by big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and the rest will be distributed to various cities across the country.
Yangping, as a prefecture-level city, is definitely stronger than Qing County, and after asking the bookstore salesperson, Zhou Hao found five lonely copies of the simplified first volume of "Raging Thunder" in a remote corner.
Zhou Hao also asked the bookstore salesperson about the sales of this book.
The salesman's sister told him: "We have a total of ten copies of this book, five of which are in the library, and five of which are on the shelf.
"Huh? It's so miserable! Zhou Hao's mouth opened wide.
"Furious Thunder" has not sold a single copy in the local Xinhua bookstore, this situation is both embarrassing and normal, although Tong Yan Wuji is famous on the Internet, but he is a complete newcomer in the field of physical publishing, fantasy is not a type that is easy to produce results in simplified Chinese, and the Northern Publishing House did not take advantage of the gimmick of a 17-year-old genius writer, and launched this online fantasy novel with almost zero publicity, and it is normal that there is no sales in this kind of third-tier city.
In fact, "Rage Thunder" is a good online novel, Tong Yan announced the online book purchase channel of this novel in the recently updated chapter, which aroused the desire of many readers with a hobby of collecting to buy, and now the book has only been on sale for more than ten days, and nearly 1,000 copies have been sold online, coupled with the shipment volume of the bookstore, the sales of the book have approached the 3,000 mark, although the sales trend will slow down, but the problem of selling out the first printing of 10,000 copies should not be big, and the publishing company will according to the demand of the market, Then decide whether to reprint or not.
Zhou Hao originally wanted to buy two copies, one for him and one for Sun Hao, knowing that the sales of this book were so sluggish, he gritted his teeth and directly paid for all five copies on the shelf.
At noon, Tong Yan took a lunch break in the bedroom, 121 only left him with a mat and a towel quilt for him to rest at noon, he slept too late at night, so now he slept very soundly, and it was almost class, Wang Ping Zheng Jing and they all woke up, only Tong Yan was still sleeping for a long time and did not want to wake up, Wang Ping was just about to call Tong Yan, there was a knock on the door outside, Tong Yan opened his eyes.
Zhou Hao and Sun Hao, the two excited book fans, were quite sensible, and it was not early when Zhou Hao came back from outside, so he simply waited until the end of the lunch break before running over.
Zhou Sun Er Hao each stood outside the door with a copy of "Furious Thunder", with a pious face.
"What are you two doing?" It was Qi Delong who opened the door.
Zheng Jing saw that it was an acquaintance, and hurriedly said: "Find me, find me." ”
Sun Hao called "Brother Zheng", and then asked, "May I ask who is Tong Yan Wuji?" The two directly reported Tong Yan's pen name, making it clear that they were fans.
Luo Xiaoxu helped Tong Yan up from the bed, "Looking for you." ”
Tong Yan said in a daze, "Looking for me?" ”
At this time, Tong Yan was sleepy-eyed, shirtless, and there was a trace of saliva at the corner of his mouth, which could be said to have no image at all, but in the eyes of Zhou Hao and Sun Hao, they saw the uninhibited unruliness of a literary and artistic worker and a genius writer, and he couldn't be more handsome.
Tong Yan felt that he was still in a state of wandering spirits, his ears were buzzing, his eyes couldn't see clearly, and he vaguely heard two people saying that they were his book lovers, and they came all the way to express their admiration for him, and by the way, they wanted to ask him to sign their names, the books had been brought, and the pen was ready.
Tong Yan took the pen, shook his head, and signed his pen name on the title pages of the two books. At first, he hated why he took a four-character pen name, because he suffered a lot when he signed, and then he practiced cursive hard, and finally was able to write four words in one stroke, and it was no longer troublesome to sign it, but before that, he didn't have much opportunity to sign, this was the first time that a book fan asked him to sign it, and Tong Yan felt a sense of accomplishment in the fog.
After the two book fans thanked them, they saw that Wuji was not in a good state, and immediately flashed, with these two autographs, it was enough for them to show off for a while, and it was also a bridge between them and the gods, and they could even proudly say that they were the first in the world to find Tong Yan Wuji to sign autographs.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know."
Qi Delong and Luo Xiaoxu couldn't figure out the situation at all, Zheng Jing and Wang Ping understood in their hearts that the person concerned, Tong Yan, was confused for five minutes, and finally sobered up, and couldn't help asking: "How do they know that I am Tong Yan Wuji!" Yes? ”
Then Wang Ping looked at Zheng Jing, and Zheng Jing raised his left and right in embarrassment, "It's me." ”
Regarding Zheng Jing's betrayal of himself, Tong Yan did not express himself too radically, in the past, when he was still in the dormitory, he must not let others know about the fact that he wrote novels, once the school did not approve of his behavior, even if he was able to endure it, it was impossible for him to continue writing. But now that he is in school, he has free time outside of school, he wants to write novels after school, which no one cares, and he knows that Lao Song will be on his side at the critical moment, as long as the head teacher does not take him seriously, he can stick to the career he loves.
The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, the love affair between Tong Yan and the old Song girl caused a sensation in the whole school, and Tong Yan became a campus-level celebrity. Fortunately, the summer vacation will be over soon, and after two months, people will gradually forget about this relationship, after all, one of the parties has graduated, leaving only the party and her father to get along with the other party day and night.
But soon, Tong Yan became the center of the gossip world in Yangping No. 1 Middle School as a genius writer, all thanks to Sun Hao and Zhou Hao's two microphones, they like online novels, and they also have a group of like-minded friends around them, not only their class, but also those in other classes and even the third and first year of high school, right under their noses, right next to them, a well-known online writer was born, how could they not publicize it much, so they almost carried a simplified physical book of "Rage Thunder", When I meet a friend who likes online novels, they will take it out and say, "Have you seen it, I have seen the author of this book ......" (to be continued......)
ps: [ps: The second update, the third chapter should be at half past eleven, and then write more or less, because I have to go to work at half past eleven~] R1292