Looking at the new books piled up everywhere like garbage, a young man dressed as a scholar had a blue face and looked a little scary.

In contrast, the Qian owner of Shuyuzhai really wanted to cry without tears.

These were all new books printed from his bookstore, and most of them were returned by booksellers in various stores.

The most returned is the new book "Yulang Immortal Sword", followed by other works of Caotang scholars.

What's even worse is that now, except for Shuyuzhai, which has signed a contract with the Caotang scholars, almost no bookstores dare to publish the Caotang scholars' books anymore.

There is no other reason, but it is just for the word "profit".

Now go to the street and ask a random person who has read a script: Which is the most popular book now?

Almost without exception, they will answer "Xianxia", followed by "Liang Zhu".

The sales of these two books are just horrible.

The first volume of "Xianxia", like "Liang Zhu", has been printed in only one month to the fifth edition.

And the second volume of "Xianxia" is even more exaggerated, it has been reprinted to the fourth edition in less than ten days after it was launched, and the breakthrough of the fifth edition is just around the corner.

As for the book of the Caotang scholar, at most, it was printed to about the third edition. The quality of the two new books released recently may have declined significantly due to the rush of work, and it is still unknown whether they will be printed in the second edition.

Of course, it would be best if the two popular authors' books could be sold together, but the head of Juyazhai said that if any bookseller wants to get the latest version of "Liang Zhu" and "Xianxia" from him in the future, he must remove the books of the Caotang scholar from the shelves, otherwise he will refuse to supply them.

No one is going to have trouble with money. Since there is only one to choose, and there is so much difference in sales between the two, of course booksellers will choose the one that sells better.

So, without exception, the booksellers made an appointment to run to the door of Shuyuzhai and demanded that all the books of the scholars in the cottage be returned.

After all, this matter was originally provoked by the scholars of Caotang and Shu Yuzhai first, otherwise the authors of "Xianxia" Chi Fei and Ju Yazhai would not have done this.

Because there were too many booksellers who returned the goods, they almost filled the door of the store, and the owner of Shuyuzhai was afraid that they would make trouble collectively, so they did not dare not return.

In this way, the inventory of Shuyuzhai itself, plus these returns, adds up to four or five thousand copies.

This batch of goods is completely smashed in the hands.

Want to sell to other prefectures? It's easy to say, but it's hard to do.

As soon as the foundation of Shuyuzhai was originally in the capital, there were no branches and familiar peers in other prefectures. Moreover, the name of Caotang Scholar may be very popular in the capital, but not many people know it in other prefectures.

The reason is very simple, in ancient times, transportation was inconvenient, information transmission was difficult, and it was not easy to expand fame to other places.

Also, the owner of Shuyuzhai is not blind, and he has long seen that the two new books that the Caotang scholar has just published recently, because the quality of the relationship between the rush has declined seriously. If it weren't for the author's reputation, it is estimated that it would not have sold at all. Even if you sell it in other places, the booksellers outside may not be eye-catching.

The owner of Shuyuzhai has a regret in his heart. I had known that I would not have printed the words that this grass hall book had to add to the preface of the new book.

Now it's okay, you directly offended the head of Juyazhai, and people just can't let you get off the stage.

The young scholar asked with a gloomy face, "Are these really the goods returned by those booksellers?" ”

This scholar is the famous grass hall scholar, whose real name is Zhao Yulang.

Because my name has a "jade" character, I especially like to add a jade character to the name of the male protagonist in my pen.

In his first famous work "Golden Lock", the male protagonist in it is called Zhang Yulang, and he uses his own name.

The owner of Shuyu Zhai said with a bitter face: "Zhao Gongzi, is this still fake?" The old man has lost a lot of money this time, and I don't know what to do with so many goods. ”

"These puffs dare?! In the future, I will not be allowed to ship my books to them, and I will not sell them a single one! Zhao Yulang trembled with anger.

Hearing this, the owner of Shuyuzhai almost couldn't help but be rude to him.

Fuck you, if it weren't for you to make the wind and rain, would Lao Tzu have piled up so many goods? You don't want to sell yet? Now that someone is willing to buy your book, they're already snickering, you-stirrer.

Fortunately, the owner is a businessman after all, and he knows that both sides are grasshoppers tied to a rope now, and if the two sides tear their faces again at this time, it will be completely over. So he could only scold these words in his heart, and he didn't dare to really scold them, but his face became very ugly like constipation.

Zhao Yulang is not a stupid person, and he has long seen that the owner of this Shuyuzhai is already very dissatisfied with him. With his arrogant temperament, where was he willing to accept this kind of anger, he immediately snorted coldly and brushed his sleeves away.

The owner of Shuyu Zhai couldn't help but glared at him fiercely behind his back, and at the same time made a decision in his heart, when this matter is over, he will never cooperate with this kind of-stirring stick again, it is simply a broom star.

After returning to his residence, Zhao Yulang sat alone in the hall and drank alcohol.

As he drank and drank, he began to unconsciously remember the words that Chi Fei wrote in the afterword, and suddenly his blood surged, and he couldn't help but stand up and slam the wine glass on the ground.

Vertical son dare! Dare!

Zhao Yulang scolded and stomped his feet hard, not only his face was flushed with anger, but even his whole body began to tremble.

Those words, every sentence went straight to his heart, it was like a knife to blood, and the arrows sealed his throat, making him want to eat that person alive.

Zhao Yulang was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he couldn't find a way to vent, and his whole face was red.

"Lang Jun, are you okay?" At this moment, a coquettish voice sounded from the side.

Zhao Yulang looked back and saw that it was the outer room that he had raised.

If it was usual, Zhao Yulang would have laughed at this newly bought beauty, but now he was already a little drunk, coupled with his dizziness and loss of reason, when he saw the corners of this beauty's mouth slightly upturned, as if he was laughing, his anger suddenly exploded. Rushed up and kicked her directly.

That beauty was born in a Qinglou, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, giving people a unique style of not smiling but also laughing, Zhao Yulang also redeemed her because of this.

As a result, she didn't expect that this once the biggest selling point has now become the reason why this beauty was beaten, so that she has no idea what happened.

"You slut dare to laugh at me, even you dare to laugh at me, I will kill you, I will beat you to death......" Zhao Yulang scolded while punching and kicking the beauty who fell to the ground like crazy, without the slightest pity for the jade.

The beauty was so frightened that she could only lie on the ground and curl up in a ball, not daring to make any resistance, at most she kept screaming in pain.

Zhao Yulang seemed to have found a way to vent, and continued to punch and kick her like crazy.

Because the movement was so loud, it even attracted the attention of the next-door neighbor.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried, on this side is Zhao Yulang's incompetent rage, but on the other side, the branches of Juyazhai are happy and jubilant.

Because the second volume of "Xianxia" sold so well, it even drove the sales of the first volume.

Not only male readers who love adventure and martial arts love to read it, but even many female readers who originally only read the human story of talented people have begun to chase this book.

Although pirated books have long appeared on the market, compared with other books, the number of readers who buy pirated books of "Xianxia" is significantly smaller.

The reason for this is indeed inseparable from the several sketches that are present in each volume.

How to put it, unconsciously, when people who have seen the sketch and those who have not, talk about the book together, there seems to be some kind of invisible dividing line.

People who have read the sketches of genuine books can pretend to be very knowledgeable and talk about how realistic and expressive the characters in the sketches are, in short, there is an inexplicable sense of superiority.

And people who haven't seen the paintings, of course, don't dare to say that they haven't seen it, so they can only echo it casually, and when they go back, they will either find someone to borrow a genuine book to see how good those paintings are, or they will grit their teeth and buy a genuine book and go back to read it slowly.

Perhaps it is because of this subtle psychology that more and more people are buying genuine books.

This peculiar phenomenon has long been seen by shrewd booksellers, and for a while, not only readers, but even booksellers all over the capital are eagerly waiting for the third volume to be released in order to make another big profit.