fish out a entertainer

Chapter 213 Official Release
"Three-Body Problem" is officially released.

Except for the [-] copies of the [-] copies of "Three-Body Problem" reserved for online sales, the other [-] copies were all distributed to the most downstream retail bookstores in the industry through the sales channels in Kyoto.

Early morning mist.

The fence door of a bookstore next to an old alley in a small county town was creaked open, and a rather old shopkeeper with gray temples, wearing a gray-blue woolen coat and a broom in his hand walked out of the bookstore. He came out, cleaned the front of the bookstore clean amidst the dust, and then took out a basin of water and splashed it on the dusty ground in front of the door.

After finishing all this, the shopkeeper walked back to the shop and began to organize the books on the bookshelf one by one, took a feather duster to dust off the dust from yesterday's books, and then went into the warehouse to collect the goods that just came in yesterday - a stack of books. Stacks of new books tied with ropes were placed one by one on his bookcase.

Unknowingly, the shopkeeper took scissors in his hand and cut the rope that bound the pile of books, and then opened the package sealed with kraft paper. A book with a yellow cover caught his eye, "What a strange name." The shopkeeper As he spoke, he shook his head.

If the wholesaler hadn't tried to persuade me when I went to pick up the books yesterday, I definitely wouldn't have wanted this stack of books.

Fortunately, there were not many. The shopkeeper took out a few and placed them in an inconspicuous place on the bookshelf.

Then he solemnly cut the rope of another stack of books, and took out a few books from these books. On the cover of the books, there were four large characters of "A visitor from outside the sky" written in white artistic font, the author Ma Yinhe.

The shopkeeper put these books in the most conspicuous place in the shop with a smile, so that people can see them at a glance.

The author of this book is a best-selling author. It is said that the new book sold nearly [-] copies online and offline in one day yesterday, which is very popular.

These dozen or so books were obtained from wholesalers with great difficulty. For this reason, I even folded in two good cigarettes.If it weren't for the many years of friendship with the wholesaler, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have these dozen books.

Carefully brushing off the dust on the unopened plastic bag of "The Guest From Outer Space" and arranging the books very neatly, the shopkeeper stood up with a smile and sat behind the counter, ready to wait for today's new customers.

Soon a few girls in middle school uniforms came in chirping.

"Ah! It's Ma Yinhe's new book! Sun Xiaoqian's brother bought her a copy, and many people gathered around her after class. I didn't expect it to be available here." A girl held a copy of "Outsiders" in her hand and couldn't put it down. Stars seemed to appear in his eyes, then he raised his head and said to the boss, "Boss, I want a copy."

"Okay!" the owner said with a smile.

Seeing this, the other girls looked at the beautiful book cover. They liked the book very much, but the price of the book was really expensive. After hesitating for a while, the money in their hands was already shattered. Collapsed, but still can't make up my mind.

The shopkeeper seemed to see the hesitation of the group of students, and encouraged him from the side: "This batch of books is very popular now, and my store only has a dozen or so. Know when it will be."

"Then I want one." A girl took the lead and picked up a book.

As if there was a chain effect, the other girls stopped hesitating one after another, each picked up a book, and surrounded the shopkeeper like chirping little sparrows.

"Okay, okay, don't worry." The shopkeeper took sheets of currency that were not brand new from the female student, his eyes were only a crack because of the smile.

After buying their favorite books, several female students looked at the books in their hands with smiles on their faces, and stepped out of the bookstore. The hesitation when buying books just now seemed like a dream, and there was no trace of worry on their faces. trace.

Among the people coming and going in the bookstore, one of the little girls who stared at the books from a distance for a while, then turned and left failed to attract the attention of the shopkeeper.

After a while, the sun has begun to scorching hot, and it already looks a bit like summer.

In the bookstore, a little girl staggered into the bookstore with sweat on her face.

There is already a customer in the store standing in front of the checkout counter.

"Thank you for your patronage." The shopkeeper said with a smile to the customer in front of him, and then put the book money into his cabinet.When he turned around, he found a little girl standing blankly in his shop, sweating profusely, staring blankly at the bookshelf.

"Where's that book?" The girl asked the owner anxiously, pointing at the empty shelves.

The shopkeeper looked at the direction the girl was pointing, and immediately understood what the girl meant.With a helpless expression on his face, he smiled bitterly and said, "The last book just now has been bought by the customer just now."

When the girl heard this, she froze in place, the money in her hand was tightly clenched, and sweat dripped from her slender forearm into her fingers, drenching the coin in her hand.

She felt as if a piece of her heart was missing, and an inexplicable sense of grief and indignation surged up, and suddenly two lines of tears burst out of her eye sockets, as if breaking a dam.

"Hey, little girl, don't cry." Seeing the girl's appearance, the shop owner quickly comforted him, and at the same time looked up at the door. If a girl was seen crying in his shop, what would people think? .

"I didn't cry." The girl raised her hands to wipe the tears on her face, but she couldn't wipe them clean.At the same time, he choked up and said: "I didn't cry, I was just too tired from running."

The shop owner came out of the cabinet and looked at the girl with a sad expression on his face. He really didn't know what to do now. He scratched the back of his head when he saw the tissue on the counter and quickly picked it up and handed it to the girl.

After a while, the girl gradually stopped her tears.

"Actually, there are other new books in my store, including a science fiction novel. Would you like to read it?" The store owner casually pulled out a book with a bright yellow cover from the bookshelf, and handed it to the girl.

The girl took the book from the shopkeeper, and two drops of crystal clear tears fell from her eye sockets that had not completely closed the embankment, pattering down on the unopened plastic cover of the book.

"Three-Body Problem?" The girl said two words slowly with a choking tone.

Inexplicably, the girl was attracted by the cover. Looking at the mysterious and unusual cover, the girl raised her head to look at the shopkeeper and asked the shopkeeper in a choked voice: "Is this author named Unnamed better than Ma Yinhe?"

"The author's name is 'Anonymous'. Yes, he is stronger than Ma Yinhe." The owner said to the girl in a gentle voice. He swore that he only said this to coax the girl from crying. White lie.

"Really?" The girl wiped her tears with her school uniform, and looked at the shopkeeper hopefully with her big watery eyes.

Looking at these eyes, the shop owner suddenly felt a little guilty, but then he comforted himself that this was just a white lie.

"That's right! Anonymous is an even more powerful author than Ma Yinhe." The shopkeeper said firmly, but after all, the shopkeeper hesitated and added: "In terms of science fiction literature."

"Then I'll buy this book!" The girl said with a smile through her tears, her eyes bright, and then handed over the already limp money to the shopkeeper, then walked out of the shop with her ponytail in her arms and the book in her arms.

The shopkeeper watched the girl leave, and unfolded the money in his hand. Looking at the money, the shopkeeper shook his head helplessly, and then threw the money into the cash drawer.

But when his eyes turned to "The Three-Body Problem", he felt a little strange in his heart.

Before, he was somewhat repellent towards this stack of books that he had forced to buy, but at this moment, the original repulsion has disappeared, so the owner took a copy of Three-Body Problem from the shelf and stared at the cover for a while. Tucking the three bodies under his arm, he walked slowly back to the counter.

(End of this chapter)