Chapter 1
For some reason, Jiang Qi felt that Cao Luoping was looking at him strangely until he got on the plane and sat down.
To this Jiang Qi could only say:?
Did Cao Luoping discover the fact that he is an outsider?
That shouldn't be the case. He wasn't the only one who didn't understand just now. Yan Huaiyou didn't understand either.
Jiang Qi, Manager Xu and Yan Huaiyou's seats were next to each other. Jiang Qi sat by the window. As soon as he sat down, he took out headphones from his pocket and prepared to watch the variety show he had downloaded in advance on his mobile phone. Manager Xu tilted his head to report to Yan Huaiyou about the arrangements for the next few days.
Manager Xu is a gold medal manager hired by Yan Huaiyou from another script store with a super high base salary of 10,000 yuan and a commission from the store's turnover. He has very strong business capabilities.
Because he was poached from another script shop, he couldn't bring his customer resources with him, but he still had peer resources. Manager Xu had been to many exhibitions over the years and met many distributors, which was why he was able to grab a bus seat when Cao Luoping couldn't even grab an OB seat.
"Boss Jiang, is there anything you're interested in? I can help you get a bus space." Manager Xu said to Jiang Qi enthusiastically after reporting the itinerary.
Jiang Qi was only interested in "Horror Doll House", and he wanted to see what this pirated version would look like.
So Jiang Qi didn't bother Manager Xu, as it's not easy for him to lead a boss with so much burden. He just asked him how to use the mini program to grab a seat. After he had a general understanding of it, he continued watching the variety show.
As a result, Jiang Qi fell asleep while watching the downloaded variety show because it was too boring. When he was woken up by Manager Xu, the plane had already started landing and his phone was almost out of battery.
"Manager Xu, did you bring a power bank?" Jiang Qi asked, looking at his phone which had only 6% battery left.
"I have it. It's in my bag. I'll give it to you when we get off the plane."
"Thank you."
The hotel where the exhibition is held is not far from the airport. The hotel Yan Huaiyou booked is right next to the exhibition hotel, and it takes about twenty minutes by taxi.
After checking in, Manager Xu said that he had contacted a few distribution friends he knew before and planned to meet them at the exhibition hotel. Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou had nothing to do anyway, so they decided to go over together to take a look.
Although the exhibition will not start until tomorrow, the hotel has already set up the exhibition. There are various posters with script covers and slogans in different formats, which look quite decent and open the eyes of Jiang Qi, who has never participated in any kind of exhibition.
"So, are we going to play in the lobby?" Jiang Qi glanced at the hotel lobby and felt that it was not very suitable. Even if the hotel had a separate banquet hall, it might not be enough.
Yan Huaiyou held his forehead with his hand: "Didn't you say you would check the exhibition information online? What did you find? Of course, the book was opened in the hotel room."
"You may not believe this, but I found a lot of gossip and learned a lot of tricks from the stores to backstab each other and snatch the exclusive items from the city."
As soon as Jiang Qi finished speaking, Jiang Jun called him.
"Boss Jiang, what a coincidence, you are here too." Jiang Jun said with a smile, "Tonight, a dealer I know wants to build a private car. Are you interested?"
"Private car?"
"It's a private gathering. It's a new book that I just finished the first draft of. It's not going to be exhibited in the autumn exhibition tomorrow, so I just organized a private gathering tonight." Jiang Jun explained.
Jiang Qi thought about it and declined: "I have some private matters tonight, so I probably won't have time."
He came to purchase goods, and what he wanted were new copies that were already in stock or would be shipped soon. He was not interested in seedling copies that had just completed the first draft and for which he had no idea when they would be completely finished.
Yan Huaiyou was somewhat interested: "How is the quality of the book?"
"It should be okay. I bought the last book by this author, but it was well received but not popular due to the subject matter. It's a pity."
"If there aren't enough people, count me in."
"Would you two like to come with me to a nearby coffee shop? I've invited some shop owner friends I met before. We can get to know each other and if we find any good books, we can share them with each other." Jiang Jun made an invitation.
"Okay." Jiang Qi nodded. His primary mission at the exhibition was to make friends, so he naturally wouldn't refuse.
"Where is Boss Cao?" Yan Huaiyou asked.
"He went to pan for gold. Among the two of us, he actually has the better eye for books. I don't know why, but the books I like are always well-received but not popular. As a result, I often come across a book I like but am reluctant to buy it. Maybe my taste is not in line with the general public." Jiang Jun smiled bitterly.
Jiang Jun looked at Jiang Qi and said, "Boss Jiang, your store is really good. You can modify any kind of book. There is no pressure to buy one."
From Jiang Jun's tone, Jiang Qi seemed to have come to Xinghe Script Club to play scripts before. Ever since the business became so good, Jiang Qi could only remember those super regular customers who came three or four times a week, and had no impression of Jiang Jun at all.
"Have you ever played the book in our store?"
Jiang Jun showed the colorful rope hidden under his sleeve and smiled: "Boss Jiang, your store is the light of our Xuncheng script store. It has become popular outside the circle, and there are 8 groups for this. I think there should be no one who has not played in your store who has opened a script-killing store in Xuncheng."
"When 'Horror Dollhouse' was trending, many of my colleagues from other places asked me about the copy in your store. Many of them wanted to buy the real-life copy worth nearly 100,000 yuan."
"Has anyone bought it?" Jiang Qi was a little curious. He wanted to know if there was any sucker who spent 100,000 yuan to buy a horror doll house without Lili.
Jiang Jun shook his head: "I don't know anything. One hundred thousand is enough to open a script store in our city."
Jiang Qi thought so too. When Jiang Bing first opened the Galaxy Script Club, he probably didn't spend more than 100,000 yuan.
As they chatted, the three of them arrived at a coffee shop.
The friends Jiang Jun invited were all script shop owners from other places, two women and one man. After Jiang Jun introduced Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou to her friends, they all said that they had long admired Xinghe Script Club. One of them even went to Xinghe Script Club during the National Day holiday to play the "Horror Doll House" and lifted up his sleeves to show the colorful ropes on his hands to prove his identity.
For some reason, Jiang Qi suddenly felt that it would become a routine for others to roll up their sleeves to reveal the colorful ropes when greeting him in the future.
After a brief greeting, everyone ordered a cup of coffee and sat down. They talked about the exhibition, focusing on a few highly anticipated events, but Jiang Qi had no idea what they were.
After listening to several people talking about the exhibition for so long, Jiang Qi roughly summarized what samples would be highly anticipated.
Adapted from big IPs (most likely to be bad books), produced by big publishers (also likely to be bad books), written by well-known authors (also likely to be bad books).
In summary, no matter what kind of book it is, it may be a bad book.
Jiang Qi has a deep understanding of this point. No matter how delicious the braised dishes cooked in the stone pot are, or how profound the Necromancer's attainments in stewing dishes are, it cannot change the fact that "Eat Your Heart" is a huge bad book.
After symbolically chatting about the exhibition, everyone started talking about the latest gossip.
Talking about this, Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou became excited.
Who doesn’t like eating melons?
Since there were 6 people at the table, except Jiang Qi, Jiang Jun and Yan Huaiyou who were from the same city, the other three were from different cities and there was no conflict of interest among them, so they shared the melon without restraint.
Everyone first started to curse a certain publisher without naming it.
This issuer just became popular at the spring exhibition this year, and it released a hit city-limited product. As the saying goes, when you are famous, you are often criticized, and the same is true for the issuer. In addition, the operation of this issuer itself is very confusing, which led to several people scolding it very mercilessly.
"I've only heard of limited purchasing rights for a series of city-limited books, but I've never heard that if you want to buy a city-limited book, you have to buy all the crappy books that the store has previously released. The writing style is elementary school students, the logic is shit, there is no plot, and I have to spit on the boxed books. How dare they sell the crappy books as city-limited books at 2299, and they won't lower the price. What kind of paratrooper stuff is that?" The owner of a local store in Peking sitting opposite Jiang Qi said indignantly, "There are actually stores that flatter him. There must be shit in their brains."
"Aren't these publications all caused by those brain-dead store owners?" said the female boss next to him. "Didn't I buy the city-limited edition of this series at the Spring Fair? It was just delivered to me last month, and it's completely different from what I ordered. Nothing was changed when they said it would be changed during the Spring Fair test. Even the core mystery of a horror-themed mystery book has problems."
"I asked the publisher in the after-sales group why they didn't make the changes, and they kicked me out of the group and posted on WeChat Moments saying that they would never work with such a store again."
"What the hell." The shopkeeper in Peking rolled his eyes. "It's just like those idiots who stuffed the room card in the bag."
Jiang Jun did not have the same worries as the stores in big cities. In a small place like Xuncheng, there were very few stores willing to buy a bunch of city-limited and exclusive products. The competitive pressure was small, and there was no such thing as fighting over a city-limited or exclusive product.
But Jiang Jun also has worries, because just because there isn't a huge fight over it doesn't mean that no one is trying to grab it.
There is nothing wrong with snatching a book, but if someone named Zhen is eyeing the book you like and trying to snatch it from you, and is also using shady tricks behind your back, it is not a pleasant thing.
"Why does Boss Zhen always compete with you for capital?" Jiang Qi expressed his confusion.
"Because he doesn't know how to choose scripts. Even though there are so many publishers and stores at this exhibition, many of them don't understand the script industry at all. They think they can open a store if they can make money, and they buy scripts blindly, buying whatever others say is good. In the end, no one wants to play with the scripts they buy, and the thousands of scripts are left to rot in their hands."
"Although most of the books I like are well-received but not popular, I think I am pretty good at evaluating books. Not to mention my husband Cao, who is a first-class book appraiser. More than half of the popular books in the store were found by him at exhibitions."
"As a result, since the autumn exhibition last year, the guy named Zhen has been targeting the two of us like a hyena. He would buy whatever we liked. It was fine at first. There were three limits in one city, so he would buy whatever we wanted. Anyway, his family's book-opening level was not good."
"But since the end of last year, the number of script-killing games in Xuncheng has skyrocketed. I remember that I was asked to open your store at the beginning of this year. It's hard to grab books when there are too many stores. That guy named Zhen teamed up with several stores to grab books from me during the Spring Exhibition this year. He grabbed whatever I liked. He grabbed two city-limited and one exclusive from me during the Spring Exhibition!" Jiang Jun got angry as he said this, "Two city-limited and one exclusive!"
"The original exclusive authorization letter for that book was sent to me. I don't know what tricks the Zhen guy used, but the dog publisher took back the authorization without any reason."
"Is it possible?" Jiang Qi was shocked. Not only was he shocked, but Yan Huaiyou was also shocked.
This is equivalent to breaking the contract on the spot after it has been signed. The market management is so chaotic.
"You'll get used to it." The shopkeeper in Peking said with a tone of a veteran, "After running the shop for four years, I've seen it all. Anything illogical can happen."
The melon feast lasted more than two hours and didn't end until five o'clock. Jiang Qi, who was mentally full, thought he should eat something material as well.
I'm hungry after eating melons all afternoon.
Yan Huaiyou was also hungry. After eating so much melon, he started to study the special dishes of Babaozhai.
"I have reserved a table at Babaozhai. I can't get an appointment at Zhiweiju today. Let's go there another day when we have time." Yan Huaiyou said.
"OK."
"The prawns in tomato sauce from Babaozhai seem pretty good, some people also recommend the roast duck, and the boiled fish seems okay too." Yan Huaiyou began to think about what to eat tonight.
"Isn't Babaozhai a Shandong cuisine restaurant? Why is boiled fish the signature dish?" Jiang Qi was puzzled.
"Who knows." Yan Huaiyou began to send a message to Manager Xu to inform him that he was going to eat. "Do you want to call the staff of your store?"
"Let me ask. Qin Can's school is probably quite far from Babaozhai. She probably doesn't want to go there."
Then Jiang Qi misjudged how much a freeloader would not fear trouble when faced with free meals. Qin Can would rather take the subway for more than an hour just to get a free meal.
Since it would take some time for Manager Xu to finish, Jiang Qi and Yan Huaiyou went back to the hotel to rest and wait for others. After Jiang Qi studied the signature dishes of Yongheju, he received a friend request from Jiang Jun.
After readily accepting the friend request, Jiang Qi opened the system panel before going out to check the star-up progress of Old John and the others, and also took a look at the progress of the task to earn a million in net profit.
Then he found that the progress of the task of [Turning Enemies into Friends] was 2/8.
Jiang Qi:?
Wow, friends made by eating melons.
But when you think about it carefully, everyone did have a great time chatting in the afternoon. After all, who can resist eating melons?
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