In the restaurant, Zeng Xiaoxian had no choice but to find that he didn't even bring a mobile phone, and he only remembered Yifei's phone, so he had no choice but to find a waiter to try to call Yifei, but Yifei hung up on him directly, and then turned off the phone when he was annoyed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the disbelieving eyes of the waiter, Zeng Xiaoxian finally found a life-saving straw on his body - the business card of Cao Yuanyong, deputy editor-in-chief of SH Literature and Art Publishing House, two days ago. When the waiter signaled for the last chance, Zeng Xiaoxian nervously dialed Cao Yuanyong's number.

"Hey, who is it?" Fortunately, the phone was connected, and the voice from inside was also Cao Yuanyong's.

"Editor-in-chief Cao, I'm Zeng Xiaoxian, I'm sorry to disturb you so late." Hearing Cao Yuanyong's voice, Zeng Xiaoxian's heart was finally half relieved, and the other half could only be let go when Cao Yuanyong came to pay.

"Ah, Mr. Zeng, have you changed your number? No wonder I kept calling you just now and no one answered. Cao Yuanyong heard that it was Zeng Xiaoxian and hurriedly said.

"Editor-in-Chief Cao has something to do with me?" Hearing Cao Yuanyong say that he had called him a lot, Zeng Xiaoxian thought that it might be a problem with publishing, but he still confirmed and asked.

"Well, that's it, where is Mr. Zeng now, shall we have an interview?" Cao Yuanyong said: "I still have some information for you. ”

Cao Yuanyong's words were in Zeng Xiaoxian's arms, how could he not agree, and he hung up after telling Cao Yuanyong the address of the restaurant.

"Help me remove all of this and get two new ones, wronged... Oh no, it's about 20 minutes to be a guest. Zeng Xiaoxian added a sentence after speaking: "Don't worry, when someone settles the bill, it won't be your money." ”

The waiter also looked at Zeng Xiaoxian a little speechlessly, and after making sure that he was not lying to himself, he prepared according to his requirements.

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Twenty minutes later, when Zeng Xiaoxian was "storming" the new steak, Cao Yuanyong finally stepped into the restaurant, which also let Zeng Xiaoxian's hanging heart relax.

"Editor-in-Chief Cao, here, here!" Zeng Xiaoxian waved his hand.

Cao Yuanyong also saw Zeng Xiaoxian, waved his hand in response, and walked towards Zeng Xiaoxian. came to the table, stretched out his hand to say hello to Zeng Xiaoxian, and sat down.

"Editor-in-chief Cao, this is just ordered for you, pinching the time you came, it tastes good, you taste it first." As soon as Cao Yuanyong sat down, Zeng Xiaoxian beckoned him to eat and said, "We'll talk slowly when we're done eating." ”

Seeing that Zeng Xiaoxian started to eat again after speaking, Cao Yuanyong was embarrassed to refuse, so he had to reluctantly eat a few bites out of politeness, and he really couldn't eat too much after dinner.

"Editor-in-Chief Cao is in such a hurry to find me?" After finishing the meal, Zeng Xiaoxian ordered two more desserts and asked Cao Yuanyong while eating.

"That's right, our publishing house has discussed, judging from your radio listening rate, there are many people who like your book, and some of them have also become your book fans, so it has laid a lot of foundation for this book, so we want to hold a book signing on the day of publication, so that in addition to satisfying some of your book fans, it can also promote the sales of your new book and make some fame." Listening to Zeng Xiaoxian talking about business, Cao Yuanyong was not confused, and said directly.

"So? But can you guarantee that there will be fans at the book signing? I'm a new author, and even if I have some foundation because of broadcasting, it's too uncertain. Zeng Xiaoxian said with some worry, if there were three or two people or no one at all, then he would be embarrassed.

Cao Yuanyong didn't get anxious when he heard Zeng Xiaoxian's question, but said slowly: "We also thought about the questions you said, so we did a survey in "Your Moon My Heart" in the past few days to see how many people are willing to come to your signing meeting, and as soon as the event came out, more than 700 people called the registration hotline in the past two days. ”

"Should I have the right to know in advance about the investigation you did without me?" Cao Yuanyong's words did not make Zeng Xiaoxian very happy, and this kind of thing that was decided directly for him without him made him feel very uncomfortable.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Zeng, I also know that it's a little inappropriate for us to do this, but we also want this book to get good results, not to mention that we are just investigating, as for whether to hold it so early, you still have to nod and agree." Although he knew that he was a little unkind in handling it, Cao Yuanyong already had a lot of experience in this kind of trouble among young people, and he was also very handy in handling it.

Looking at Cao Yuanyong's sincere apology, Zeng Xiaoxian couldn't get angry. He also thought about Cao Yuanyong's words, thinking about it, he also felt that this was a good idea, after all, he still had a lot of things to do later, and it would be too crowded to leave it later.

"Okay, I agreed, but there's less than a week left, is it too late?" Although Zeng Xiaoxian agreed, he was still a little worried.

"Don't worry, we've thought about everything, and we can implement it after you agree." Cao Yuanyong heard Zeng Xiaoxian's agreement, and said happily: "In the past few days, we will have been advertising on the radio station, and we will also go to various bookstores to make various teaser billboards in advance, and other of our publishing houses will also be launched at the same time, so as to leave a deep impression on readers before the shelves and signing sessions." ”

"Well, I didn't expect you to be so well prepared, experienced is experienced." Zeng Xiaoxian praised and then asked, "Then have we negotiated the location of the signing meeting?" Where to put it? ”

"You can rest assured about this, we talked about it early in the morning, and it will be held in the Fanghui Plaza store of Boku Book City in SH City, where it is spacious enough, we will send more goods to the book city at that time, and also promised them that if they can't sell it, they can return it directly." Cao Yuanyong said lightly: "When the time comes, readers will buy the book directly over there, and then come over and wait in line for the autograph, which is absolutely appropriate, we are already too familiar with these, so you can rest assured." ”

"So what do I need to do?"

Hearing Zeng Xiaoxian's question, Cao Yuanyong took out a document from his briefcase, handed it to Zeng Xiaoxian and said: "This is the general process of our signing meeting, and there are some precautions for signing meetings, especially for the first time like yours, you must take a good look." ”

"Yes, that's good! It's late today, I'll go back and take a slow look, and then I don't know how to ask you again. After Zeng Xiaoxian finished speaking, he asked Cao Yuanyong again: "By the way, did you bring any money?" ”

"Brought it, what's wrong?" Cao Yuanyong didn't understand what Zeng Xiaoxian meant, but he still said so.

"Lend me $100." Zeng Xiaoxian didn't talk nonsense, and said directly.

Cao Yuanyong didn't ask anything, and directly took out a hundred yuan to Zeng Xiaoxian, Zeng Xiaoxian got the money and directly told Cao Yuanyong that the phone number had not been changed or the previous one, and went out to take a taxi and left.

"Sir, please settle the bill, a total of 2,133 yuan, remove the mantissa and charge you 2,100 yuan." Just as Cao Yuanyong was about to get up and leave, the waiter who stopped Zeng Xiaoxian just now stopped Cao Yuanyong with a bill.

"Ah???h Cao Yuanyong exclaimed, looked at the direction Zeng Xiaoxian left, and shook his head with a smile, there was no choice but to pay the bill. When he finished paying the bill and left, he was speechless when he saw that Zeng Xiaoxian had actually eaten twice.