I open a bookstore in the human world

"Amao, what is this big box? Could it be a coffee machine again?" Seeing Mao Shi carrying a big cardboard box into the shop, Tang Chi couldn't help but ask.It was late at night, and there were not many customers in the store, let alone order food, so he was free.

Mao Shi moved the box sideways to the second floor, and replied, "I don't know, this thing is really heavy, maybe it's a book?"

As he spoke, his foot slipped, the cardboard box fell out of his hand, and rolled down the stairs.

"You're always so reckless," Xiao'e, who was also doing nothing on the side, was startled by the movement, and hurried over to help, "Look at you, this box has been scattered, and all the things inside have fallen out Let Song Ge know how to educate you."

Mao Shi was also a little nervous, and hurried downstairs: "Are the things inside okay?"

"Fortunately, it's not a fragile item." Xiao'e took a sigh of relief, and took a closer look at something thrown out of the box, and found that something was wrong. "Huh, isn't this a book? What are these?"

Xiao'e's fingers painted with bright red nail polish slid over the box, which was about a quarter of the size of an A4 paper, looking at it over and over again, calling out to her companions: "Hey, let's see what this thing is. What?"

Tang Chi was the closest to her, and walked over first, his hand was about to touch the paper box, but Xiao'e slapped it away, with a bit of disgust in his tone: "Don't touch your oily paws, just finished eating potato chips Have you washed your hands yet?"

Tang Chi was a little aggrieved, but considering that he had just repaired his relationship with Xiao'e recently, he didn't dare to say more, so he took a step back.

"This thing seems to be... a postcard?" Qin Shi was on duty today, and when he heard the movement here, he surrounded him curiously.

"That's right, it's a bit like a postcard." Dao Dao also came to watch, but his words were ignored by Huali.

"But this postcard seems to be different from the previous postcards?" After being reminded by them, Xiao'e also remembered, "I have never seen such a style before. I like the style of painting."

The back of the postcard box is printed with different small pictures showing what kind of postcards are inside.

"Wait, this brand is..." Qin Shi's eyes were sharp, and she noticed something abnormal at a glance.

All the ghosts looked at the logo printed on the lower left corner of the postcard box, and all the ghosts were stunned for a while, and it was Xiao'e who was the first to react, with uncontrollable surprise in her voice: "This logo...is from our store? "

Xiao'e is very familiar with this icon, isn't this the word "shadow" written by Zuiyue before?

But the question is, why is the bookstore's logo printed on this set of postcards?

"Brother Song, are you here?" Just when all the ghosts were staring at the postcard in a daze, Song Lan had arrived at some point.

Song Lan nodded, looked at the postcard box in Xiao'e's hand, and was a little surprised: "The delivery is quite fast, I thought it would be delivered tomorrow."

Apparently Song Lan was an insider, and after hearing the rumors, all the ghosts began to discuss——

"Brother Song, why does this logo belong to our bookstore?"

"Brother Song, are these postcards made in our shop?"

"Brother Song..."

"Stop, stop!" These voices gave Song Lan a headache, he raised his hand high and shouted to stop, "You all come one by one! Xiao'e, you ask first."

Xiao'e pointed at the word "shadow" and widened her eyes: "Brother Song, what does this logo have to do with our bookstore?"

Song Lan smiled slightly and said, "This is the logo of our bookstore."

"So these postcards are made by our bookstore?" Qin Se continued to ask.

Song Lan nodded: "Yes."

"Then what are these paintings?" Mao Shi also asked.

Zuiyue murmured: "I don't know why, these paintings give me a very familiar feeling..."

"These paintings are all drawn by Xiao Dan." Song Lan's light words surprised all the ghost employees present.

"What?! Xiao Dan can still draw?" All the ghosts said in unison.

Song Lan ignored them, but turned around and waved towards a corner: "Xiao Dan, come and take a look, the postcard has been printed."

It was only then that the ghosts discovered that Xiao Dan had been by the side just now, but because she was silent, no one noticed her for the time being.

After being reminded by Song Lan, all the ghosts present focused their eyes on her.

"I, I..." Xiao Dan was so frightened that he pointed his fingers straight, unable to speak a complete sentence.

"Okay, okay," Song Lan calmly turned the eyes of the shop assistants back to him, which was considered to be a relief for Xiao Dan, "You guys divide this box of postcards into one piece, sort it out and try to put it on the shelves tomorrow."

After receiving the task, the shop assistants all started to act. Not long ago, the bookstore had just ordered a postcard display case, which was as big as half of the wall, and a bookshelf was specially removed for this purpose.At that time, everyone was puzzled by Song Lan's actions, but now it seems that he has other plans.

"Xiao Dan," Song Lan smiled softly at her, and waved the postcard in his hand, "Would you like to come over and see the finished product?"

Xiao Dan was naturally excited and curious about the printed matter that he had drawn, but because he was too shy to come over, he hesitated for a moment, and shyly walked to Song Lan's side with small steps.

This time, a total of [-] paintings were selected and [-] kinds of hand-painted postcards were printed, mainly landscape paintings, and occasionally a few animals as the main characters. In the wilderness, there are also quiet jungles, and there are cute cats and dogs, but almost without exception, there are no people in the paintings.

I say "almost", because there is one exception. The color of this postcard is very different from others. If other paintings are brightly colored, all kinds of bright yellow, orange red, bright green, sky blue...then this one uses Large areas of gray and black, the picture is also very clean, with a large area of ​​blank space around it, and in the center is the lonely back of a girl. If you look closely, you can find something like a small flowerpot at the girl's feet.

This is Xiao Dan's latest work. When Song Lan saw it, she knew it was her self-portrait. The potted flower at her feet was obviously the mimosa that Xie Daonian gave her and was so precious to her.

What this painting brings to people is not joy and warmth, but a deep and indescribable loneliness.

It is actually not suitable to make such a painting into a postcard. Except for a few people who can appreciate it, most people still prefer the small and fresh painting style, but Song Lan still decided to print this painting as a postcard, because he I know, this painting is the most special to Xiao Dan.

Song Lan knew that Xiao Dan was in awe of herself. This kind of awe was manifested in the fact that she could obey her words, but she was still unable to have a heart-to-heart relationship with herself as a friend. He could only secretly help cowards in this way.

Sure enough, seeing that the painting was also printed as a postcard, Xiao Dan was stunned and couldn't help looking up at Song Lan.

Facing her three-pointed excited and seven-pointed probing eyes, Song Lan just smiled and asked, "Do you like it?"

Xiao Dan's face flushed instantly, and he didn't know whether it was from embarrassment, excitement, or both.She hugged the twenty postcards tightly in her arms, as if there were little stars dancing in her eyes, she nodded heavily: "Yeah!"

***

The hand-painted postcards produced by Shadow Bookstore sold very well. Dozens of them were sold on the first day they were put on the shelves. According to the price of two yuan each, nearly 200 yuan was earned.

Although the money is not much compared with other projects, it has given Xiao Dan great confidence and surprise.At first, she was very worried about what to do if no one cares about the postcard. Wouldn't she be very sorry for all the efforts Song Ge made?

The situation in the next few days was even more gratifying, probably because someone was doing promotion in the circle of friends again, but all the customers who entered the store would stop in front of the postcard display rack and admire it with great interest. If there are more, each style will come with a package.In a few days, the inventory was reduced by half.

Faced with such a result, Xiao Dan was full of gratitude to Song Lan.She was embarrassed to say it, but she knew very well in her heart that Song Lan had spent a lot of effort for her. She had been busy contacting the manufacturer to register a trademark before, in order to make her hand-painted paintings smoothly turn into postcards.

The reason why these postcards have such a good sales, in addition to her paintings, the quality of the paper also plays a big role.At the beginning, Song Lan shopped around, and finally chose the factory he is working with now. The paper quality of this factory is good, and the printed things rarely have flaws such as color difference. It can be regarded as a finished product.

Due to his personality, Xiao Dan is not good at communicating with people, and he doesn't know what words to use to express his gratitude, so he has to adopt the simplest and most practical method-continue to draw.Her idea is simple, the more she paints, the more she can sell?

In order to repay Song Lan's kindness to him, these days Xiao Dan has been working hard on painting besides his normal work, at most occasionally watering his pot of mimosa, even Zuiyue doesn't pay much attention to her.

Zuiyue was a little worried, so she told Song Lan about it in private, and added sadly at the end: "Brother Song, you should think of a way, this kid is a bit crazy."

Logically speaking, ghosts don't need to eat or sleep. Xiao Dan's painting day and night has no effect on her body, but if she keeps doing this, will she become more autistic?

Song Lan also couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't expect that his kindness would lead to such a result.After thinking about it, he found Xie Daonian and asked Xie Daonian to come forward to persuade the coward not to work so hard.

After Xie Daonian heard about this, he went to Xiao Dan to have a heart-to-heart talk, and when he came back, he said to Song Lan: "Xiao Dan said, if she doesn't work hard, I feel that I am too sorry for your painstaking efforts." His tone was A little helpless, obviously even he couldn't completely convince Xiao Dan.

Song Lan didn't know whether to cry or laugh: the ghost under him is so self-motivated, should he be encouraged?

However, this incident reminded Song Lan: the reason why Xiao Dan paints day and night is because there are only [-] kinds of postcards on sale at present. Recently, many customers have been asking if there are other postcards. , which made her even more nervous, and wanted to work hard to produce a batch of new paintings, so that new ones could be released as soon as possible.

Should I think of another way?Song Lan pondered.