Chapter 1

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"Oh my God, this is so sinful. Eat one more bite, and then I won't eat it anymore!" Qin Can kept muttering to himself, "Take one more bite," while stuffing a big mouthful of mutton skewer into his mouth.

Then she looked at the plate sprinkled with chili powder and the roasted leeks scattered with red on the green, and comforted herself: "It's okay to eat a bite of vegetarian food, you won't get fat."

Then Qin Can ate another bunch of leeks.

"You dancers are so miserable." Jiang Bing looked at the shop assistant in front of him who he had never met before (Qin Can had already started school when Jiang Bing opened the shop), and happily ate meat with big mouthfuls, "Fortunately, I'm an art student."

Jiang Qi felt that if Qin Can continued to eat at this standard for a few more days, her teacher would hang her up and beat her at the same time.

"It's already past 12 o'clock and the subway has stopped running. Why don't you go back?" Jiang Qi decided to persuade Qin Can.

"It's okay, there are night buses." Qin Can said she had a plan B, "and I told my roommate before I came out that I might go back very late at night."

Jiang Jun didn't eat much barbecue, but ordered a bowl of noodle soup at the barbecue supper stall and was replying to messages while eating.

It was already 12 o'clock when Jiang Qi and his friends came out of 701, and Yan Huaiyou had just finished. Yan Huaiyou had not eaten dinner in order to catch the evening bus. Although he could order takeout and eat while taking the test at the hotel, he was not used to eating in front of a group of people, and the hotel room was not that big and it was not convenient.

It happened that Orange and two other distribution girls were preparing to have a midnight snack, so they decided to go out together. Qin Can, Jiang Jun and Manager Xu were all called later.

Cao Luoping didn't come because he had to rush to finish his next immortal cultivation game.

When a group of shop owners get together for a midnight snack, it’s natural for them to talk about their business.

Jiang Qi promised Da Bing that he would help them promote the business, so all the shops that he could promote gathered on this barbecue table.

After hearing Jiang Qi say that the popular movie "Horror Doll House" was surprisingly good, Yan Huaiyou was a little skeptical: "Really?"

Jiang Qi said sternly: "Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, ask them."

Juzi immediately vouched for Jiang Qi: "It's really good, and the book is very well done, with basically no ugliness. If we make a few minor changes and contact the printer, it will probably be ready for shipment in December."

As a small publisher that has released several boxed sets, Orange still has a lot of say in this regard.

Jiang Jun and Manager Xu immediately became interested. A horror city limited edition with decent quality is definitely a money-making tool. Horror books have a wide audience, low threshold, easy to open, and fast turnover. In addition, they have inherent advantages in opening a horror book since they are also in the escape room business. After listening to Chengzi's recommendation, Manager Xu directly asked for Dabing's WeChat to book the next bus.

The scriptwriters on Jiang Qi's left were chatting about business, while the two diners on his right were concentrating on eating.

"Sister, please hurry up and write the review for Ben. It would be best if you can finish it and give it to Da Bing before the end of the exhibition." Jiang Qi reminded, lest Jiang Bing find a way to postpone it again.

Jiang Bing: /(ㄒoㄒ)/

"By the way, Sister Bing, when did you return to China? Why didn't you tell us in the group?" Although Qin Can had never met Jiang Bing, it did not stop her from calling Jiang Bing "Sister Bing".

"I just returned to China last week. I still have some business to deal with here. I'm not in a hurry to go back, so I didn't tell you." Jiang Bing said calmly.

"Sister, you've been quite rich recently. You can even rent a short-term apartment in Peking for such a long time." Jiang Qi said softly.

"How can I afford a short-term rental house in Peking? I rent a short-term rental house in a county town in the north." Jiang Bing blurted out.

Qin Can:?

Realizing that he had let something slip by mistake, Jiang Bing smiled awkwardly and changed the subject: "I remember that you have never been to BJ before. I saw that the weather forecast is good these few days. Why don't we find some time to climb the Great Wall?"

"You run a script store and sit in the store every day without moving. It's time to exercise."

Yan Huaiyou, who was almost dozing off while listening to Manager Xu and the others talking about the script, immediately leaned over when he heard Jiang Bing talking about climbing the Great Wall. He asked, "Are you guys going to climb the Great Wall?"

"I have this plan." Jiang Qi said.

"Take me one!"

"I didn't know that traveling to exhibitions was so tiring before. I thought it was just a normal daily game. But the venue is small and there is not much place to sit. I was hungry and sleepy after playing the game tonight. If I had known that the autumn exhibition would be like this, I would have asked other people in the store to come."

Jiang Qi laughed and said, "Even if we weren't in a hotel room, you wouldn't be able to handle playing two or three games a day."

"Don't mention it..." Yan Huaiyou began to complain.

…

After Manager Xu finished communicating with Juzi and others, added Juzi on WeChat and expanded his circle of friends a little bit. Then he turned around and found that his boss was already discussing with a group of people from the store next door about which scenic spot to visit after climbing the Great Wall.

Manager Xu:?

Do you have any basic respect for the exhibition?

Facts have proved that Jiang Qi and his colleagues still have some basic respect for the exhibition.

This respect is specifically reflected in the fact that they did not choose to sneak off to climb the Great Wall on the second day of the exhibition, but instead set the date for climbing the Great Wall on the third day of the exhibition.

Everyone came to the exhibition with a mission.

Jiang Qi has seven friendship goals, and he was not originally prepared to make seven friends in five days. His original plan was to add WeChat first, chat more on WeChat, like more posts on Moments, interact more in the comment section, and become online friends.

As a result, the task progress was only 3/8 before the number of friends reached 7. Miss Orange and Da Bing’s childhood friend both recognized Jiang Qi as a friend.

The common characteristics of Orange and Dabing’s childhood friends are that they are all unknown at the exhibition, both are store owners and distributors, and both are attending an exhibition as distributors for the first time.

These small publishers who are attending an exhibition for the first time are usually both nervous and expectant. A simple affirmation from a buyer can easily make them ecstatic.

A buyer who pays quickly is more likely to win their favor.

After discovering this pattern, Jiang Qi started to go on a shopping spree.

On the afternoon of the first day, he picked up a lot of posters from the stalls in various banquet halls, and the second day was when these posters came into play.

Jiang Qi specifically picks small publishers who are obviously novices. He doesn't get on board but just watches to get a general understanding of the story. After glancing at the specific content of the book and feeling that there is no problem, he places an order decisively.

When placing an order, I also chatted with the publisher for a few more minutes and then rushed to the next place.

Under this model, Jiang Qi placed orders for more than 60 boxed copies in one day, and a list of publishers with financial transactions appeared in his WeChat friend list.

In sharp contrast to Jiang Qi's lavish spending behavior is Jiang Bing.

She really came to the exhibition to expand her business.

For Jiang Bing, those promising small publishers and new authors at the exhibition are a blue ocean waiting for her to explore.

Many of these people, like Da Bing, have little knowledge of the industry and come to the exhibition with a dozen A4 papers. If the book is not popular, it basically cannot be sold, so there is no need to find an artist to draw posters and illustrations.

But what if it becomes popular?

Script-killing is a highly profitable industry, whether you are opening a shop or selling books.

This industry is in its development stage, with no supervision and wild growth. There are many cases of small publishers becoming rich overnight with a single book. Some good books are buried, while some mystery books that are copied from some well-known mystery books are selling well.

Of course, Jiang Bing doesn’t care about these.

She only cares about whether there are her future customers among these new publishers and authors, and whether the net she casts out can catch a few big fish so that she can earn back the money for food and accommodation for these days.

Therefore, the brother and sister Jiang Qi and Jiang Bing, the two rare flowers at the autumn exhibition, cast their own nets for small publishers on the second day of the exhibition, and even gained a little fame.

Among them, Jiang Qi was the most famous. On the third day when Jiang Qi, Jiang Bing, Yan Huaiyou and Qin Can went to climb the Great Wall, a small publisher had already added Jiang Qi's WeChat and tried to sell him their own boxed books.

Jiang Qi had added a lot of new friends to his circle of friends, so he had to keep a low profile and not let everyone know that he went out to climb the Great Wall on the third day of the exhibition, so he didn't post on his circle of friends.

Jiang Bing was theoretically still abroad, and he didn't dare to post on WeChat Moments.

Yan Huaiyou didn’t have so many concerns. He posted a nine-square photo after climbing the Great Wall, and then posted another nine-square photo when he went to Yongheju for dinner in the evening.

Qin Can only posted the nine-square grid of climbing the Great Wall and didn’t dare to post the one of eating. The caption of the nine-square grid of the Great Wall was: It’s a rare weekend, so I came out to climb the Great Wall with friends for some exercise.

This post on WeChat Moments received recognition and praise from her teacher.

Manager Xu was the only one of the two stores who was working properly, doing two games a day, and scrolling through his friends circle and seeing the boss's nine-square grid: ...

Manager Xu thought about it and also posted a circle of friends before 12 o'clock, with a nine-square grid of pictures, all of which were exhibition rooms.

At the same time, a group circle of friends was also posted.

It's nice to have money (tt)

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We originally thought that the test would be finished around 9pm, but we, a bunch of noobs, underestimated our abilities and continued testing until after 12pm...

I’ll try to make up for it by updating three times tomorrow.

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