Chapter 1
For the exhibition on October 17, Yan Huaiyou booked a flight for the morning of the 16th.
He not only booked the flight tickets, but also booked a hotel for Jiang Qi. They were accompanied by the boss of the JC and his girlfriend. Yan Huaiyou told Jiang Qi about this on the evening of the 14th. It must have been the JC who took the initiative to contact Yan Huaiyou.
Jiang Qi thought it was quite strange that the owners of two alphabet script stores went to the exhibition together.
Early in the morning of October 16, Jiang Qi took a taxi to the airport with his suitcase.
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"Boss Jiang, here." Manager Xu waved at Jiang Qi. He and Jiang Qi were quite familiar with each other because he often went to the braised food store to queue up to buy braised food, was taken away by Chengzi to play "God of Cooking" together, and had the employee meal of Xinghe Script Club with Yan Huaiyou.
"Yan Huaiyou hasn't arrived yet?" Jiang Qi looked at the time. It was almost time to board the flight.
"Our boss went to the bathroom." Manager Xu said, taking a deep breath, "Strange, why do I smell duck neck?"
"Oh, that might be because I ate duck neck for breakfast and the smell got on my clothes. It will go away after a while."
Manager Xu:?
Eating this early in the morning?
"Has the boss of the jc arrived?" Jiang Qi asked. He had never met the boss of the jc, although he had been undercover in the jc's appointment group for half a year.
"Here they are. They should be checking in their luggage now." Manager Xu said, and introduced Jiang Qi to the boss of JC. "The boss of JC is Cao Luoping, and the boss's wife is Jiang Jun. They are engaged. You should have met Boss Jiang Jun. She is the gold medal DM of JC."
Jiang Qi said a little embarrassedly: "You may not believe it, but I don't even know where the police station is located."
Manager Xu: ...
As they were talking, Yan Huaiyou came out of the toilet. Seeing that Jiang Qi was alone, he was a little confused and asked, "Didn't you ask me to buy two tickets for you? Why are you the only one?"
"The other one is in Peking now." Jiang Qi said, "It's Qin Can who came to eat noodles with a suitcase on October 2. She is studying at a university in Peking, although I only found out about it during the National Day."
"Okay." Yan Huaiyou nodded. "It's time to check in. When I came out just now, I saw that the police couple had gone there."
The three of them went to security to board the plane.
There weren't many people flying to Beiping. In the words of Manager Xu, most of them were from the same industry. Of course, Jiang Qi didn't recognize anyone. Cao Luoping had to walk up to them and say hello before Jiang Qi knew who the person in front of him was.
Yan Huaiyou and Cao Luoping were not familiar with each other. Xinghe Script Club and the script shops in Xuncheng were two lone wolves. Some of the other shops had good relationships with each other, while others hoped that the other shop would go bankrupt as soon as possible. Regardless of whether the relationship was good or not, they were in contact to some extent, and the bosses all had WeChat accounts with each other.
These two stores have no connection with anyone, except for each other, and they are connected through vegetable noodles and braised dishes.
They checked their boarding passes and found that they were all consecutive numbers. Jiang Qi, Yan Huaiyou, and Manager Xu sat in a row, and Cao Luoping and his wife sat in a row next to each other.
People who do business are more or less socially adept. Cao Luoping is a sociable person, and Jiang Jun is a gold medal DM. Under Cao Luoping's guidance, the few of them soon started chatting.
Speaking of JC's history of success, Jiang Qi has also heard a lot about it.
JC is one of the earliest script-killing stores in Xuncheng. It was originally opened in a residential area. Later, when the business picked up, it moved to a remote store. It gradually became bigger and stronger, and attracted investment from a boss who was said to be very rich. Only then did it have a prime location, more than 20 employees, and was ranked first on major review websites.
Of course, now the first place has been eliminated. Although Jiang Qi thinks there is no difference between the first and second place, and they can be seen by clicking on the homepage, Yan Huaiyou really wants to compete for the first place and has to spend more money to eliminate JC.
I can only say that it’s great to have money.
Facing the real culprit behind the removal of his store from the top of major review websites, Cao Luoping remained calm. There was no actual competitive relationship between him, Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou.
The three stores sell different types of products and are far apart, so the overlap of their customer base is not high. Although Jiang Qi has taken away many customers from JC, he has taken away more from other stores. Xuncheng’s customer base is so small that if one store does well, the other stores will inevitably have poor business. Who told Jiang Qi to have 8 customer groups?
There was still half an hour before boarding, so they simply found a place where there were not many people and sat down to chat.
"The scale of this autumn exhibition is larger than in previous years. It is said that the tickets were sold out very early. The organizers later added a lot of tickets, probably because they booked another hotel." Cao Luoping said, "It is said that the number of tickets sold is also the highest in history. I didn't get a spot for several major new releases."
"All the tickets have been sold out? That means there must be hundreds of tickets issued for this year's exhibition?" Manager Xu said.
"There must be quite a few. This year's Spring Fair had several boxed sets by new authors that were very popular. I'm afraid there will be quite a few new authors participating in the Autumn Fair as well."
Cao Luoping sighed, "I didn't get the bus and OB seats for Mirror of the Void. I can only wait and see if I can get a chance. I have been looking forward to this book since Mirror Studio promoted it at the beginning of the year. What a pity."
"I got it." said Manager Xu.
Cao Luoping suddenly became excited and began to tell Manager Xu how much he liked the author's previous books and how much he believed in the quality of the scripts produced by this studio.
Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
What are these two people talking about?
Jiang Qi is a layman, and Yan Huaiyou is not a professional script writer. He took Manager Xu to the Autumn Exhibition this time mainly because of Manager Xu. Like Jiang Qi, he was just there to join in the fun.
"So the bus spots were grabbed using the mobile app." Jiang Qi only understood this after listening for a long time. He turned around and asked Yan Huaiyou, "What if I don't get one?"
Yan Huaiyou knew this: "It's not like every script has to be snatched up. Most of the scripts at an exhibition are unknown and no one plays them. Didn't I send you the script list?"
"And the script list?"
Yan Huaiyou quickly sent the script list to Jiang Qi: "Some of the scripts are published in advance, and the complete list can only be obtained after the exhibition starts."
Jiang Qi clicked on the order sheet and started reading it. He saw a very familiar book at the very end of the order sheet.
"Horror Doll House" Producer: Green Detective Reasoning Studio
Jiang Qi:?
"Is this just to ride on the popularity?" Jiang Qi pointed at this unknown studio.
Yan Huaiyou took a look and nodded affirmatively: "It must be, but isn't it a bit too blatant to have the same name? Oh, there is a dot in the middle."
"But the card game studio didn't seem to participate in the exhibition. In fact, with the fame of "Horror Doll House", if this studio was willing to produce a slightly cheaper version, it would probably sell well."
Jiang Qi was shocked to hear Yan Huaiyou say this, and quickly asked: "The previous book... did you see a very expensive one?"
"Aren't the new ones released last month very expensive? 'Eat Your Heart' was 200,000 yuan, and even the real-life version was too expensive. 'The Doll House' was only sold for 90,000 yuan." Yan Huaiyou said.
“Where did you see the price?”
Yan Huaiyou thought Jiang Qi had overpaid, so he took out his mobile phone, found the official account of the card game studio, and opened the online store of the official account to show Jiang Qi.
Jiang Qi found that all the books he bought were in this online store, but the prices were very different.
"Mask Club" 7999 yuan
"Chef Contest" 19999 yuan
"Time Cinema" (real scene) 79999 yuan
"Horror Doll House" (real scene) 99999 yuan
Eat Your Heart (Real Scene) 199,999 yuan
Only the books he bought would appear in this online store, and the price tags on the books made Jiang Qi look like a rich second-generation.
"Only true fans like you, Boss Jiang, would be willing to buy such a high price. However, the time-lapse movie theater I entered into your store was not a real scene."
"Ah... when I bought it, this book wasn't real and wasn't that expensive. Maybe it was changed later."
"The customer service of this studio is also outrageous. Jiang Qi, which customer service representative did you add?"
"Xiao Ka."
"My family also has Xiaoka, and they ignored me. When I asked if it could be cheaper, they just said no, don't buy it if you don't have money. Their attitude is ridiculous."
Jiang Qi: ...
You may not believe it, but the guy I added was very nice, kissing me before and after. But his price is even more outrageous, with a string of zeros at the end that will make you doubt your life.
"The exhibition doesn't start until tomorrow. Have you decided what to eat tonight?" Jiang Qi quickly changed the subject.
"Maybe Yongheju or Babaozhai. I went to Babaozhai when I was a kid and the food there was pretty good, but I heard that its reputation has been poor in the past two years."
"Then it depends on the situation. We'll go to whichever restaurant we can get." It just so happened that these two restaurants were also on Jiang Qi's travel guide. "I saw online that Fenyuan is delicious."
"Don't even think about Fenyuan. It's the most expensive private restaurant in Peking, and a meal here costs this much." Yan Huaiyou gave Jiang Qi a number.
Jiang Qi couldn't help but gasp. Wow, he could buy a book just by eating a meal.
On the other hand, after Cao Luoping had a long chat with Manager Xu about his favorite scripts and authors as if he had found a close friend, he realized that he seemed to have deviated from the original intention of chatting with Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou, and did not chat with them at all, so he quickly made amends.
Then he found that Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou were discussing which day would be best to climb the Great Wall.
Cao Luoping:?
Aren’t we going to Peking to attend the exhibition?
"Any day is fine as long as it's not the weekend." Jiang Jun said, looking like she also wanted to climb the Great Wall. "I saw the weather forecast says it will be cloudy the day after tomorrow, so the day after tomorrow will be good."
Cao Luoping: ???
Honey, do you remember that we originally wanted to join forces with the owner of the Galaxy Script Club to grab the city-limited space to avoid being snatched away by other competing stores?
Wife, how come you have been led astray by them?
Why do I feel like you want to climb the Great Wall with them the day after tomorrow?
Wake up, we are going to the exhibition, and most of the people waiting for the flight here are our colleagues!
Boss Zhen, the store next door who once snatched away two city limits and an exclusive one from you, is sitting at your six o'clock position. Please wake up!
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The extra chapter of 515 is the extra chapter of 37 letters of "Life Game". It seems that you can read it by sharing or something. Dear readers, remember to read it.
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