Chapter 446: Fire on One Side and Ice on the Other
The next morning, Xiao Fei got up early as usual and exercised in a nearby park for more than an hour.
After the workout, refreshed, he entered the school from the south gate and found Xu Fengjuan to have breakfast together.
Although it is a weekend, many students have a habit of sleeping a lot, but Xu Fengjuan has always maintained the habit of getting up early.
At breakfast, Xu Fengjuan said that the sisters in their dormitory would come over to cheer Xiao Fei together.
And Dongfang Tian and several people said yesterday that today they want to pull up all the people who can pull in the entire history department to cheer for Xiao Fei.
Dongfang Tian said that he must not let the master of Mengbizhai crush Xiao Fei.
Although he also likes to watch "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", he also admires the divine imagination of the owner of Mengbizhai, and he is also very much looking forward to "Notes on Tomb Robbery".
But his heart is still on the side of traditional serious literature, and he prefers the tearful and smiling thoughts, the touching and shocking that Xiao Fei's long "Brothers" brings to him.
"Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is only suitable for entertainment.
And "Brothers" will cultivate people's cultural aesthetics and deepen people's thoughts.
The feelings that the two bring to the reader are completely different. The reason why adventure novels such as "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Notes on Tomb Robbery" are more popular with ordinary readers is because life is not easy, and most people don't want to read things that are too heavy.
People live for a lifetime, the grass and trees are autumn, several degrees of cold and warm, a little complicated.
People who think too much and think too deeply will always live a little more miserable than ordinary people.
Why bother? Isn't it good to rely on human instinct to follow the laws of nature to live this life?
Two lives, Xiao Fei felt. In this life, people can't live too clearly. It may be better to be confused, this is the simple principle of survival.
The meaning of the existence of literature. In fact, it is to entertain the public, adding too many heavy things to literature, and many times it is a waste of time.
Of course, this is just Xiao Fei's innermost thoughts.
If you talk about literature in public, you naturally want to talk about those metaphysical things.
Well, actually, I'm a very hypocritical person......
After breakfast, Xiao Fei originally wanted to take Xu Fengjuan to the signing site, but Xu Fengjuan said. She had already told the sisters in the dormitory that she would leave them behind.
Xiao Fei bought some oil cakes, buns and the like, and sent Xu Fengjuan downstairs in the dormitory, which were naturally brought to a few girls in their bedroom.
"Xiao Fei, come on!" Xu Fengjuan held breakfast in one hand, and when she walked to the entrance of the building, she turned around and smiled at Xiao Fei again, and made a cheering motion, "You will definitely be able to defeat another yours!" ”
"Hmm. Actually, I'd rather the two of me go hand in hand and sing together! Xiao Fei laughed.
Xu Fengjuan naturally knew that the owner of Mengbizhai was Xiao Fei's vest, so she would say this.
She probably thought it was funny, too.
Compete with yourself. Do you play with each other?
When Xiao Fei came out of school, the time was only 7 o'clock, and he hesitated. It was decided that the pioneer car would pick him up at the hotel where Cheng Editor was staying, and then go to the main store of Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing.
He had just stopped downstairs at the hotel. I received a call from Editor Cheng.
Editor Cheng asked Xiao Fei if he had started to set off.
Xiao Fei smiled and said, "Teacher Cheng, I'm downstairs in the hotel." Let's go together. ”
After a while, Editor Cheng hurriedly came out of the hotel gate, and Xiao Fei saw that his eyes were slightly red and swollen, and he looked tired, obviously he didn't sleep well last night.
"Teacher Cheng, have you eaten breakfast?" Xiao Fei asked.
"Eat, I ate at the hotel, what about you?"
"I've eaten too, so you can get in the car, let's go to the signing meeting now." Xiao Fei helped Editor Cheng open the car door.
"Thank you." Editor Cheng thanked him and got into the car.
In the car, Editor Cheng told Xiao Fei that there were several other people from his editorial department, but they were staying in a hotel near the main store of Xinhua Bookstore, which was already on the scene.
In the capital on Sunday, when 7 o'clock came, there was still little traffic on the road, and the passers-by walking in the cold wind tightened their necks one by one and ran briskly to their respective destinations.
Xiao Fei and the two arrived at their destination in about twenty minutes.
At this time, it was only half past seven.
But the square in front of the main store of Xinhua Bookstore in Beijing is already a noisy atmosphere.
Xiao Fei parked the car opposite, and when he got out of the car with Editor Cheng, he saw that a big stage had been set up at the main entrance of the main store, with a red carpet and flower baskets on both sides.
The stage background is spray-painted with a fiery red background cloth, and the white theme is displayed on the background: the latest shocking masterpiece of the master of Mengbi Zhai after "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Tomb Robbery Notes" is grandly debuted!
Cheerful music was playing on the speakers.
A large lottery box is placed on a table on one side of the stage, and behind this table is a pile of prizes, bicycles, color TVs, and electric heaters, which look very visually impactful.
Behind the desk on the other side is a mountain of books.
Naturally, these books are the first part of the newly listed "Notes on Tomb Robbery".
More than a dozen staff members were busy at the scene. Although it was not yet eight o'clock, there were already many people around the table vying to buy books.
After buying the book, you can get a lottery ticket, keep the bottom copy for yourself, and put the lottery copy in the lottery box, waiting for the big draw after the launch ceremony.
This launch ceremony is only one morning, from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m., and if it expires, you will lose the opportunity to participate in the lottery.
Therefore, there is an endless stream of readers who come early to participate in the book purchase raffle.
To say, shopping sweepstakes at this time are already quite common, and there is nothing new to say.
However, there are very few lotteries in the book market that hold such a big lottery, almost none. After all, buying books and reading books is a very elegant thing, and using a lottery to promote it seems a little cheesy.
The purpose of carrying out such activities in Beijing and Shanghai is also to stimulate the market, let the potential of book purchase explode as soon as possible, and finally impact the benefits of this year.
It seems that this activity will add a lot of additional costs, but if you think about it, it is actually a small amount of money to do a big thing.
The total of those prizes is more than 10,000 yuan, but the value of the national sensation it caused is immeasurable.
As Xiao Fei knows, nearly 100 newspapers and more than 30 TV stations reported the news that Hanmo Company held a blockbuster lottery launch ceremony for "Notes on Tomb Robbery", which sparked a big discussion in public opinion.
And Hanmo also took advantage of the situation to carry out an anti-piracy activity of "supporting genuine books and winning 10,000 yuan cash red envelopes".
Hanmo has set up anti-counterfeiting measures for the genuine "Notes on Tomb Robbery".
This anti-counterfeiting measure is that the title page of the new book "Notes on Tomb Robbery" uses a watermark anti-counterfeiting paper, which has the watermark LOGO of Hanmo Company, which can be seen as long as you look at the light.
This kind of watermark anti-counterfeiting paper is six or seven hundred yuan more expensive per ton than ordinary paper.
It was specially ordered by Hanmo Company to the paper mill.
This watermark security paper also has a unique serial number printed on it that belongs to each book. Readers only need to cut out this piece of security paper and send it to Hanmo Company to participate in the lottery of "Win 10,000 Yuan Cash Red Envelope".
The lottery will cooperate with Hexi Satellite TV to broadcast the lottery process live on TV, and draw a cash prize of 10,000 yuan and a cash prize of 10,000 yuan on the spot......
In short, around "Notes on Tomb Robbery", Hanmo Company has made enough gimmicks.
Now, it's harvest time.
It was not yet eight o'clock, Xiao Fei estimated that the scene of the launch ceremony of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" was crowded with hundreds of people. There are also people who are constantly coming from all over the world to join the flow of people.
"Let's go."
Editor Cheng saw Xiao Fei standing in place and observing the scene of the launch ceremony of "Notes on Tomb Robbery", and watched it for four or five minutes, without saying a word, with a very complicated expression flashing on his face.
He touched Xiao Fei's arm and said sourly.
The two walked towards the side of the "Tomb Robbery Notes" event site.
This is a side door of Xinhua Bookstore, turn a corner is, in front of a small open space, there are two tables, on the table is a desk card, on which the words "signing table" are written.
At the back of the table, too, neatly stacked was the freshly printed Harvest magazine, which exuded the scent of ink.
Three staff members with the work cards of the editorial department of "Harvest" around their necks stood aside, looking at the activity site of "Tomb Robbery Notes" not far away with envy in their eyes.
It's a shabby and lonely place.
It's just a corner away, but the situation is very different.
Xiao Fei looked at the land and said in his heart.
There is no red carpet, no stage, no background, and not even a banner is hung, even if readers come over, I am afraid they don't know that this is Xiao Fei's signing site, right?
"What about banners? Why don't you see hanging? Editor Cheng asked a staff member with a dark face.
He told them to make a banner last night to hang at the scene.
Now come over and see that there is nothing on your side, of course, you will be very angry.
"Teacher Cheng, you just told us about this yesterday afternoon, I ran a lot of places yesterday to find a shop that made banners, and they promised to make it early in the morning, but I went over this morning to get it, and the owner of the store said that there was a batch of urgent work last night, so I forgot to make a banner for us." The staff member said aggrievedly.
"What the hell! Is this here for a signing? I think that's a shame! Editor Cheng yelled angrily.
"You can't blame us, right? After all, our magazine has never engaged in such activities as signing sales, who has that experience! The staff member retorted without flinching.
"Alas! The responsibility is on me, let's stop arguing and see how we can make up for it. Editor Cheng recovered from the brief gaffe and said with a sigh.
It's already like this, it's useless to argue anymore, and the top priority, of course, is to reverse the unfavorable situation in front of you. But in the face of this mess in front of him, Editor Cheng is really at a loss. (To be continued......)