Chapter 59: Selling Books
"The sunset embroidered curtain roll, the water under the pavilion is empty. Zhijun is a new work for me, and the windows are wet and red. Long remember that on the Pingshan Hall, the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River are pillowed, and there is no lonely Hong. Recognize the drunkard's language, and the mountains are in the middle of nothing. ”
Sunset, green hills, in the lonely pavilion.
Lin Chen stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the river under the pavilion and the blue sky, the sunset in the distance and the pavilion reflected each other, the mountains loomed in the sunset, a beautiful scenery was vast, empty and vast, I couldn't help but feel something, and whispered softly.
"Good poetry, good poetry! I didn't expect my junior brother to be so literate! There was a burst of applause on the side, and I saw that not far from the pavilion, Xu Mengyun came with a smile.
"Senior sister has won the award, this sentence was not written by me, but by a poet in my hometown." Lin Chen turned around and smiled slightly.
"With such literary talents, and such romantic characters as junior and younger brothers, the hometown of junior and younger brothers is really a place of outstanding people!" Xu Mengyun's autumn-like eyes blinked and said in appreciation.
"Of course." Lin Chen smiled slightly, looked into the distance, but his voice was a little low, "I just don't know when I can go back......"
"What?" The voice behind Lin Chen was too low, and Xu Mengyun didn't hear it clearly for a while.
"It's nothing, senior sister, let's talk about business!" Lin Chen quickly came back to his senses and said.
"Serious, what's the business?" Xu Mengyun's beautiful eyes turned, and she said a little jokingly, "At dusk, we are in the same room, I don't know what the junior brother wants to talk to the senior sister about?" ”
"Nature is a good thing." Lin Chen said generously.
"Oh?" Xu Mengyun looked at Lin Chen with interest
"Senior sister, please take a look at this." Lin Chen's face was silent, he took out two stacks of books from the storage bag and handed them over.
Well?
Xu Mengyun took a closer look, and saw a stack of books handed over, and the top one had a few big words written on the cover:
"Senior sister, please respect yourself! 》
???
Xu Mengyun looked confused, hesitated for a moment, but still opened it and looked at it.
Swish!
Turning the cover, the first page is a picture, which gave Xu Mengyun's first impression is:
???!!!
Xu Mengyun subconsciously glanced down at herself, and then looked at Lin Chen a little strangely.
With the idea of not peeking into the whole picture of the matter and not expressing opinions easily, Xu Mengyun continued to look through and found that the following was the content of the text mixed with the pictures.
[Senior sister invited me to go to the cave mansion, and I pressed my identity together, and in desperation, I could only promise.
Unexpectedly, when he opened the door and entered the court, he saw a vast mist, and he couldn't see it really.
When I was wondering, who expected my sister to attack me in the dark.
Without noticing, I fell into a trap.
The attack was so sinister that I had no choice but to stand up and strike.
……
Note: There are pictures and truths
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Just as she was reading, Lin Chen took out a set of tea sets, built two cups of spiritual tea, took a sip, looked at Xu Mengyun, who was gradually sluggish, and said with a smile.
"What do you think, Senior Sister?"
Xu Mengyun was silent for a moment.
She thinks that she was born in a merchant family in the mortal world, and her family is rich and rivals the country, and she has seen many people since she was a child, not to mention that after entering the fairy gate, she has also experienced a lot of things.
But the current scene was completely beyond her comprehension.
The boy you like gives yourself a book of this type and lets yourself rate it?
What should she say, is the book inferior to her own?
"Uh-huh...... Senior brother, he is really temperamental, and he is quite good. Xu Mengyun hesitated for a while before he said hesitantly.
"So what does Senior Sister think this book is worth?" Lin Chen didn't notice the strangeness in her tone and continued to ask.
"Uh-huh???" Xu Mengyun reacted quickly.
It turns out that the junior brother wants to sell books?
'I thought he was hinting at something, but it turned out ......' Xu Mengyun's thought flashed through her mind, but she quickly came back to her senses.
"Senior brother wants me to sell these books to earn spirit stones?"
"It's not just about selling books, but it's about selling these books on a large scale, forming a signboard, and at the same time suppressing the monks who sell similar books in the sect and dominating the market." Lin Chen said lightly.
"But what if someone copies it?" Xu Mengyun asked rhetorically.
"I believe that with my senior sister's ability, I can handle this, right? If it really doesn't work, then let the copyist disappear unexpectedly! Lin Chen said with a smile.
"This ......" Xu Mengyun was stunned for a moment, and then said after a while, "Even if you can beat piracy, as far as I know, it is not easy to squeeze out others and dominate the market." ”
"Don't worry, senior sister." Lin Chen picked up a book with a smile on his face, "Even if I sell it, I have this confidence." ”
"Oh? Why are the junior disciples so confident? ”
Compared with the cramped and weird before, Xu Mengyun adjusted her mentality at the moment, and did not look at the book on the table, but relaxed her body and asked with some curiosity.
After all, after so many years of experience, she is no longer the kind of lady who is shy after flirting with two sentences, although Lin Chen did shock her by giving her this kind of book before, but she still quickly came back to her senses.
"The mainstream of the market now is those obscure ancient books, such as "The Shadow of the Curtain Flower", "Yulou Spring" and other ......" Lin Chen said lightly.
In order to analyze the market, he read all these books.
"I have to admit that although these books are not easy to understand, the meaning in them is easy to lead people to reverie, and in the eyes of different monks, they can satisfy their conjectures to varying degrees, but they have a very fatal flaw, which is not straightforward enough." Lin Chen bent his index finger and knocked on the tabletop.
"If you said earlier that the merits of such books are reverie, why do you say that their disadvantages are not straightforward enough?" Xu Mengyun frowned, grasping the contradiction in Lin Chen's words.
"Reverie takes time and brainpower, but for monks who have a lot of free time, of course it's nothing.
But for the low-level monks, who have been exhausted from a day's chores, and want to find something to relax in the evening, do you think they will still have the leisure to look at the kind of things that need to be understood and revered? ”
"What the junior brother means is that the language of your kind of book is straightforward, and it can satisfy the ...... of those low-level monks to a great extent Well, spiritual needs. ”
"That's right." Lin Chen nodded.
"But will this work, junior brother, your book is too direct, and it is also equipped with various portraits, which is also too ......" Xu Mengyun hesitated.
She doesn't think she's the kind of pedantic person she thinks, but she can't accept it.
Even if the language is straightforward, a picture will come to you in a few pages, which is too much!
"Why not, the language is straightforward and doesn't need to use the brain, the picture can satisfy the desire, and it makes the reader feel cool to a great extent, why can't it?!" Lin Chen asked rhetorically.
"But ......"
"Senior sister, why do you think this kind of book can have such a market in the sect?" Lin Chen interrupted.
"There are Yichun Courtyard and Fanglin Fang in Zongwaifang City, and there must be dozens or hundreds of spirit stones for a single consumption, and the harvest of a few months will be gone. I don't have enough spirit stones, I don't have a private cave, I don't have cultivation resources, I don't have a female cultivator, I can only be lonely and widowed all day long......"
"On the one hand, the consumption is high, and no one follows, and the mortal monks do not accept it, but most people always need to vent their desires when they are under pressure, so there is a market for such books!"
"And my book can satisfy everyone's desires and satisfy everyone's excitement!"
"To put it simply, it's cool!"
"In the book, those unapproachable senior sisters in the past who cultivated with themselves, and those villains who bullied themselves knelt down in front of them and became servants, and they could easily earn spirit stones, break through cultivation, and become supreme ......
Drunk lying on the knees of a beauty, waking up as an immortal. This kind of unobtainable desire in the real world can be imagined and satisfied in the world of fiction I provide, coupled with the oppression brought about by the hard life in reality, senior sister, do you think my book is competitive? ”
Xu Mengyun was silent for a long time before she sighed: "Senior brother, what you said is right. ”
"Then junior brother, do you want to use these books to squeeze out other sellers and become the only one, so as to monopolize the market?" Xu Mengyun continued to ask, and at the same time, her eyes began to brighten.
This kind of book is not a necessity, it is just to meet the spiritual needs of most people, and it is a little difficult for most monks to speak, and the market formed is relatively small and hidden, so there are not many foundation building elders in the upper echelons competing for interests......
If for the sect as a whole, the benefits are not as great as those from pills, spiritual weapons, etc., but if they are put on individuals or a few people, these benefits are enough to support their cultivation during the foundation building period!
Tens of thousands of disciples in the entire sect, even if each disciple only buys one book a year and only spends one spirit stone, it is still the income of tens of thousands of spirit stones, not to mention far more than that!
"No, no, sister, I don't want to be the sole seller, but I want to be a platform controller." Lin Chen shook his head lightly and said with a smile.