I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 363 Great Chapter
It's nightfall in the magic capital.

The lights of the city in the distance are brightly lit, and the houses in the nearby neighborhoods also have some lights on.

under the gazebo,

Little Fatty sat on one side, playing with his mobile phone vigorously, and there were two little tail-like children behind him, squatting there and watching.

Ji Zhuo is here, leaning on the gazebo pillars, half lying down, yawning.

Getting up early this morning doesn't match Ji Zhuo's work and rest habits, making Ji Zhuo a little sleepy right now.

Glancing at the little chubby guy next to him, Ji Zhuo leaned against the pillars of the gazebo, slumped on the bench under the gazebo, raised the phone in his hand,

I glanced at the readership.

"Grass growing in the canyon: Shit! Dog author, your "The Shepherd Boy Seeking Immortals" will be published overseas.

Grass in the canyon: ABC's new book is said to be released soon, so what about your new book?

Grass in the canyon: Why is there no movement at all?

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: You don’t understand this yet. The author of the dog is not like ABC. Before the release of the new book, he even issued a notice.
The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Don't they always engage in surprise attacks? Suddenly, the new book is released.

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea: Maybe it’s tonight, or maybe it’s tomorrow, the new book of the dog author will be released suddenly, the dog author, is it right?

Little Black House: Dog Author!Dog author, come out, don’t think I don’t know you’re here if you don’t make a sound.

Little Black House: I want to see the author of the dog, I want to see the author of the dog, I..."

The reminder news in the group, Ji Zhuo, who has seen strong winds and waves, and has been tempered into steel, remains indifferent and does not change his face.

But seeing that there are only these news in the group, there is no news about the release of "The Ordinary and the Great",
Ji Zhuo was quite happy.

At least it proves that the news of the release of "The Ordinary and the Great" today has little impact,
At present, it seems that there is no news in the country.

Ji Zhuo nodded in satisfaction,
Shut down the book club,
Then I wandered around the Internet.

The Internet is still full of dog author "The Shepherd Boy Searching for Immortals", the overseas version will be released on Saturday.

News of the upcoming release of ABC's new book.

The popularity of these two news directly and severely squeezed the popularity of similar news,

Just look at the news on social platforms.

"Ordinary and Great" cannot be seen on the hot search,
You can't see it in the discussion of topics related to reading and publishing novels.

It wasn't until Ji Zhuo directly searched manually that he finally found it.

"...The publicity of "Ordinary and Great" is not an exaggeration! That's not enough for "Ordinary and Great"!"

"I feel uncomfortable for what happened to Little Hoss, but the more depressing part of the story in the ordinary chapter is that this is just a corner of the book, and what happened to Little Hoss is like the ordinary life of the people in the book..."

Related readers who have read "The Ordinary and the Great" have given this book a very high evaluation.

Many readers even feel that the exaggerated praise used in the previous promotion of "The Ordinary and the Great" is not enough to describe this work.

Look at it this way,
Edited by Ayer, Ayer Press seems to be on the right track with the publicity strategy for The Ordinary and the Great.

It's just a pity that there are still too few comments from these readers.

Under the previous publicity draft of "The Ordinary and the Great", there are often a few items,

Most of the readers who used to join in the fun under the promotional manuscript, most of them don't know that "The Ordinary and the Great" is released at the moment.

I don't even know what the content of "The Ordinary and the Great" is.

Looking at these movements on the external network, Ji Zhuo nodded again in satisfaction.

……

"Al: Mr. I, the first-day sales of your work "Ordinary and Great" have been counted."

The next day, it was almost noon on Ji Zhuo's side.

It should still be early morning in Europe.

Not long after Ji Zhuo got up from the bed and was washing up, he received a message from Editor-in-Chief Al,

Ji Zhuo brushed his teeth, glanced at the message displayed on the screen,

Immediately afterwards, the editor-in-chief Al sent another message, and Ji Zhuo clicked on it and looked again.

"al: The total sales volume recorded by various channels yesterday was 1723 volumes."

At first glance, this sales volume seems to be pretty good.

But this is the total first-day sales of "The Ordinary and the Great" basically in the whole of Europe.

Calculated, each language version may have sold hundreds of copies.

And this sales volume is seriously inconsistent with the resources invested by Ayer Press and the work done for it.

As a small publishing house, Ayer Press has tried its best to spread "The Ordinary and the Great" to the bookseller channels of European countries,
For this reason, I gave up a lot of benefits.

But these are the only results.

"al: The white flag national language version has the most sales, accounting for about half, followed by the English version..."

As the publishing house of the White Flag Country, Ayer Publishing House operates the best channel in the White Flag Country, and it is not surprising that the sales volume is the most.

Paused, before waiting for Ji Zhuo to reply.

Editor-in-chief Al will send another message.

"Al: Mr. I, I'm sorry. We didn't do our job well enough to allow such an excellent work like yours to only achieve such sales."

On the other side, at Ayer Press,

Al, who arrived at the publishing house early in the morning, sent a message to Mr. I on the computer.

He felt very guilty, and even had no face to face Mr. I.

Even though he had expected the sales on the first day, such a dismal first-day sales still made him feel sorry for Mr. I.

"al: Your work should have been shining brightly as soon as it was published, but Al Press has failed to live up to your trust.

al: Al Press has delayed your work, we are sorry for you and your work. "

Even Al has begun to doubt his publicity strategy.

He was very uncomfortable. No matter how you put it, the poor sales of the book on the first day were all facts.
And this is caused by their publishing house.

As a loyal reader who likes this work,
It was really hard for Al to accept that this work was delayed by him.

"Al: Mr. I, you trust us and Al Press so much, but we haven't done this better..."

Here

Ji Zhuo, who was brushing his teeth, looked at Ai Er's continuous messages, feeling somewhat complicated.

Regarding the poor sales on the first day, Ji Zhuo was quite happy.

A solid first step has been taken on the road of collecting system wool,
But Ai Er's guilt still makes Ji Zhuo feel a little guilty.

After all, there are people who are working hard to sell their works,
I am here to pray that the sales of my works are bleak.

I am somewhat sorry for what others have paid for this.

Especially Al is very uncomfortable here.

Thinking about it, Ji Zhuo stretched out his hand again and poked the phone screen,

A few words of comfort to Al.

"Clumsy and Uncommon: Hasn't it already been said before? If the book doesn't sell well, it's the book itself.

Clumsy and extraordinary: If he can shine, he can shine, obviously, only because the work itself is not good enough.

Clumsy and uncommon: And this is not your responsibility, Mr. Ayer and your publishing house. "

Mr. I's reply,
Al was relieved, but following on, he felt even more guilty because of Mr. I's trust, and felt a heavy responsibility.
Even so, Mr. I was still comforting himself.

"Ordinary and Great" is the work of Mr. I,

The sales of this work are not good, Mr. I must feel uncomfortable,

But still comforting himself.

How dare I live up to such trust.

now,

Al has a strong urge to die for his confidant.

"Al: No, Mr. I, there is no doubt about the excellence and greatness of your work. It is only the responsibility of Al Publishing House, which did not allow more readers to open this work in the first place."

Why is this Al so stubborn, everyone is fighting for the pot?
Ji Zhuo was in a complicated mood, so he comforted Ai Er again.

"Clumsy and uncommon: Besides... didn't you expect it before? The publicity method of Ayer Publishing House is very good, but it takes time to wait for the word-of-mouth to reverse.

Clumsy and uncommon: Now it just proves that the reversal of word of mouth takes time, and this responsibility lies with me, not your publishing house.

al: The responsibility lies with the publishing house. If the publishing house does a better job in the early stage, the time for word-of-mouth reversal will come earlier.

al: Thank you, Mr. I, for your comfort to me and your trust in the publisher.

al: But don't worry, I still have full confidence in the brilliance of your works, but I'm just worried that our publishing house has not done a good enough job and delayed the recovery of word of mouth. "

"Clumsy and uncommon: take your time, don't rush."

Ji Zhuo is really not in a hurry, he can't wait for Ayer Publishing House to wait for word of mouth to slowly ferment with him,
Let's wait for three months.

"Al: Al Publishing has worked hard for this, and made all the efforts that Mr. I can make to make your work shine its own light one day earlier!"

Seeing Al's frantic words,
Ji Zhuo was speechless.

Is there any problem in understanding my words?
And on the other side,
For Al,

Mr. I's words are full trust in Ayer Press,

And in order not to put too much pressure on Ayer Publishing House, they actually said this.

How dare Al Press fail to live up to such a good writer, Mr. I.

"Clumsy and uncommon: Hmm..."

Ji Zhuo didn't know how to reply, so he could only reply like this.

After talking about the sales on the first day,

Ayrton paused and sent another message.

"Al: Mr. I, there is one more thing I need to trouble you with.

al: The thousand volumes of books that you sent to Mr. I earlier.Have you signed it yet?

Clumsy and uncommon: I have signed it, and I will send it out tonight. "

In addition to the first [-] volumes, the next [-] volumes of "The Ordinary and the Great" in various languages ​​have also been mailed in the past two days.

Ji Zhuo also took the time to sign.

Ji Zhuo signed tens of thousands of books at every turn,

To Ji Zhuo, these thousand volumes were nothing but light wind and light rain.

"al: Thank you, Mr. I, for taking the time to sign these books. We will use these signed books to do some publicity activities as soon as possible.

Clumsy and uncommon: ...um. "

Regarding Al's words, Ji Zhuo didn't know what to say.

It can only be corrected in this way.

Ended the communication with the editor-in-chief Al,
Ji Zhuo paused, put down his phone, continued to wash,

Just entered the study.

"Ordinary and Great" has been released.

"Shadow Empire" is still waiting for him to write.

……

"...Petunia. Mr. I has already signed and mailed the autographed book."

"On social platforms, hang up the announcements of the promotional activities in various places."

"it is good."

Al Press, Al ends Mr. I's exchange,
He turned his head and shouted at his wife and assistant.

……

"Ah~ha..."

Baiqiguo, the ordinary writer Ochino arrives at noon,
I just got up from the bed, and I kept yawning when I got up, and I didn't get enough sleep.

In order to watch the newly bought "The Ordinary and the Great" last night,
He didn't go to bed until he finished reading the "Ordinary" chapter.

I should have slept until the afternoon before getting up today.

But just now I accidentally believed it halfway, and I couldn't help but think about the plot in the book "Ordinary and Great",

The plot screen of the ordinary chapters I have seen before, and then the next plot that makes people can't help but emerge.

Then the more I think about it, the more I wake up, the more I think about it, the more excited I become,
In the end, I couldn't fall asleep at all, so I could only get up from the bed.

"call……"

After washing his face, he poured another glass of warm water and went to sit in the study.

Almost devoutly carrying out the 'ritual' before reading the book,
After calming himself down, Ochino took back the "Ordinary and Great" that was on the desk.

Yesterday, Ochino went to the bookstore to buy this book out of curiosity about that poor hapless guy.
After coming back and sitting on the sofa, I casually opened and read a few pages,

He sat down from the sofa to the study.

Then I found out that the clown turned out to be me.

If he can write works of this quality, he would dare to touch ABC and dog authors, and other famous celebrities.

Who is afraid of who.

This kind of messy thoughts began to be born after he read the contents of a few pages of the book,
Then followed closely, gradually immersed in the plot and story in the book, and couldn't care about it anymore.

Then, I just couldn't put down the book, and I kept watching it late into the night and early in the morning.

this time,
Ochino followed the bookmark in the book last night,
Just turned over the place I had seen last night.

The first chapter, the 'ordinary' chapter ends,
The second chapter, or rather, the second half of the 'great' chapter begins.

eyes on the pages of the book,

The author's exquisite, fluent, and appropriate sentence descriptions,

It easily pulled Ochino into the story,

Good text can make people ignore the text, just like a smooth picture emerges from the text, making people feel immersive.

Ochino, immersed in the world of the book again.

……

'Great' chapters, compared to ordinary ones,
There is a long time span in between.

At the end of the ordinary chapter, it's just that Hoss has just come of age, and it's just that the toil in the fields makes him look like an old farmer.

The 'ordinary' chapter ends abruptly when Hoss says he's going to send his kids to town to study.

And the beginning of the great chapter,
Howth's children,
Gerrit is no longer young.

And Hoss, as he said at the beginning,
sent his children to school.

And thanks to the new decree of the general who ascended the throne,
The town did build a school, and teachers were sent.

And although the decree of the king-general is free admission,
But Hoss still paid ten silver coins for Gerrit before he was eligible for Gerrit's admission.

This is all Hoth's savings for a long time,
It is he who works in the fields with his back to the sun, and he who goes to the town to do every physical work he can do in his spare time.
It was all the savings he and Mrs. Milia, and even the whole family, had amassed from living extraordinarily frugally every moment.

And this is only enough for Gerrit to enroll for one year, and the next year, he needs to pay five silver coins.

But Hoss made the decision anyway.

And the beginning of the story,
That is, after Gerrit had been at school for nearly a year.

"...Grete made a bold proposal to his father based on the knowledge he had learned."

……

"Father, do we still owe Mr. Raleigh four silver pieces?"

"Correct."

Hoss's face was tanned and rough, and his skin was chapped by the wind in the field and the sun.

His waist is already a little bent, and he keeps his head down most of the time.

At this moment, he just came back from working in the fields,

The agricultural tools in my hand have not been put down yet,

He just listened to his own son, Gerrit, who was about to approach his chest, speaking seriously.

"We originally owed Mr. Raleigh seven silver coins, and these paid back three silver coins in total."

Over the years, the repayment money has not been as much as Hoss expected,
Especially in these years, the weather has not been very good for several consecutive years, and the harvest in the field is not as good as before.

Sometimes, just using the land left by his father is not enough to repay the interest of the year.

And Hoss has been saving some money every year since he decided to send his kids to school.

Therefore, the family lived in extreme poverty.

"Look, father, this is my calculation. Our family has already paid Mr. Raleigh."

"Over the years, we have repaid far more than seven silver coins."

"I know, there is interest."

"Yes, father, do you know that this money may never be repaid, if you insist on belonging to the land left by your grandfather."

"The money you paid Mr. Raleigh has far exceeded the value of the fields left by my grandfather."

"But these fields are still mortgaged to Mr. Raleigh, and they actually belong to Mr. Raleigh. But father, you are helping Mr. Raleigh to cultivate, and you don't need to be paid.
In addition to the harvest in these fields, even every year, father, you need to subsidize Mr. Raleigh from other income to repay the interest and loans. "

(End of this chapter)