The next day, Xue Yuanming's article was published in the newspaper. The circulation of the New Youth Daily was not low, and soon many people in Kyoto saw the article.
Most people who knew that "Whose Childhood Wasn't Troubled" was taken off the shelves ignored it as if it had nothing to do with them. At most, they just said in their hearts that they didn't expect Xia Yuan to be a person who was seeking fame and reputation.
Of course, most ordinary people don’t know what Xia Yuan did. After seeing this article, I wanted to read the well-received book "Childhood Troubles". For a time, "Childhood Troubles" was selling very well.
As the author of "Childhood Troubles", Shao Yunhan naturally received a lot of attention. Wherever he went, people praised him, as if he was the child of other people's family.
That day, the teacher praised Shao Yunhan in class. After class, he called her to the office and said kindly, "Yunhan, your writing skills are so strong. You must write well this time. I want to use your composition as an example."
Shao Yunhan nodded confidently, "Teacher, don't worry."
The teacher was pleased and let her go home to write her composition.
Shao Yunhan was a child, an ordinary child. Receiving so much praise, she naturally couldn't control her inner swell, and then she naturally forgot that "Childhood Troubles" was not her work at all.
Bursting with confidence, she wrote an essay and waited to hand it in to her teacher the next day. Xia Yuan was very glad that she checked Shao Yunhan's homework that night, otherwise, what would have happened would have been unimaginable.
How should I put it? Shao Yunhan's composition is very ordinary, as ordinary as that of an elementary school student.
If it were an ordinary student, there would be nothing wrong with this composition, but Shao Yunhan’s character is not an ordinary student, she is a literary genius Shao Yunhan. How could such a composition come from her?
"What did I tell you? Read more books, read more books. What have you read? Look at what you wrote? It's garbage, it's shit!" Xia Yuan threw the composition book in front of Shao Yunhan.
Shao Yunhan burst into tears. She thought her composition was excellent, but her mother criticized it as garbage and shit. What an insulting word! She had never been scolded like that before.
"You're still crying," Xia Yuan yelled at Shao Yunhan, "Do you know how much I've sacrificed for you? Do you know how many people are waiting outside to laugh at us? I asked you to work hard, and this is the result of your efforts?"
Xia Yuan was so angry that she almost died. How could she have such a stupid daughter?
"What's wrong?" Shao Yuhe pushed the door open and saw Xia Yuan glaring at Shao Yunhan. Shao Yunhan was crying at the top of her lungs. His face instantly turned cold. "Xia Yuan, what are you doing?"
"What am I crazy about?" Xia Yuan bent down, picked up Shao Yunhan's composition, and threw it at Shao Yuhe. "You're a university teacher. Take a look at what your daughter wrote."
Shao Yuhe opened the notebook and looked at it, then said, "What's wrong? Isn't it normal for her, a primary school student, to write like this?"
"Normal?" Xia Yuan pointed at Shao Yunhan, "Is she an ordinary elementary school student? She is an elementary school student who has read a book."
"The book was written by you, not her!" Shao Yuhe's voice was also filled with a growl. He disagreed with this matter, but he had no say in this family.
"No," Shao Yunhan shouted at this time, "I wrote the book." Shao Yuhe did not expect Shao Yunhan to be so self-deceiving. He raised his hand in anger and pointed at Xia Yuan, then at Shao Yunhan, and finally slammed the door and left.
Xia Yuan ignored him. She had regretted it a long time ago. She shouldn't have been obsessed with Shao Yuhe's appearance and talent. She should have married someone of equal social status, otherwise she wouldn't be living such a tiring life now.
"I'll write one, and you memorize it tonight and hand it in tomorrow." Xia Yuan said as she lay on the table and started writing the composition. After she finished writing, she asked Shao Yunhan to memorize it.
That night, Shao Yunhan didn't go to bed until after two o'clock.
Xue Yuanming and Xu Hongwen stopped focusing on the Kyoto market and began to focus most of their energy on markets outside of Kyoto. Because they were angry, they were determined to make "Whose Childhood Wasn't Troubled" sell well in the local market.
Xu Hongwen also asked his aunt who lived abroad for advice on promotion methods. Ms. Xu told him a lot about promotion methods for foreign books. After listening to her, Xu Hongwen and Xue Yuanming asked their art classmates to design a poster based on the actual situation in China. They then had it printed and distributed it to bookstores across the country along with the book.
On Sunday, Gu Siqing came out of dance class and went to the bookstore with Han Zhengping. They saw a large poster posted at the entrance. The words "Whose Childhood Wasn't Troubled" were particularly eye-catching. In this era, new books in bookstores were basically not advertised.
The book's pioneering publicity naturally attracted many viewers. Furthermore, the book salesperson at the store enthusiastically recommended it, and Gu Siqing was enthusiastically invited in by a woman in her twenties who recommended "Whose Childhood Wasn't Troubled."
"I see you're in elementary school, right? Take a look at this book. The author is an elementary school student, and the stories she writes about are things that happened around her. Have you seen these things before?"
Gu Siqing had a book stuffed into her hands, so she could only lower her head to read. Although she wrote it, it was really novel to be recommended in this way. Han Zhengping stood beside him and smiled, saying to the bookseller, "This author's pen name is really interesting, sticky bean buns."
"Isn't it cute?" the bookseller said, "Although the pen name is a bit childish, it just shows that the author is a child! A child about the same age as you."
Han Zhengping curled his lips and smiled, "Cute!" He held back his laughter.
"You get a commission from selling this book, right?" Gu Siqing suddenly asked, otherwise why would she be so enthusiastic.
The bookseller quickly waved her hands and said, "Little classmate, please don't talk nonsense. It's not true."
"I was just talking nonsense. I know you didn't do that." Gu Siqing said quickly.
I didn’t expect Xue Yuanming and Xu Hongwen to be so business-minded that they came up with the commission method to stimulate sales at this time.
"Okay, let's buy this one." Han Zhengping took the book from Gu Siqing's hand and went to the cashier to pay.
The elder sister smiled, another commission was in her hand. Although she only got 20 cents for each book, the more she sold, the more she could earn. She then went to introduce the book to another parent: "Comrade, your child is in elementary school, right? I recommend a book to you."
Gu Siqing and Han Zhengping left the bookstore and said, "It seems we made the right choice to find Xincheng Publishing House to publish this book."
Han Zhengping had heard her talk about how she had found a publisher. Hearing her say this, he hummed and said, "Your writing is good."
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