Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 986 Upside Down

After a calligraphy class, Li Yong packed up his things and walked up to Zhang Zhong, and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang, congratulations in advance for breaking the record."

Zhang Zhong was rubbing his pen, when he heard Li Yong's words, he raised his head and smiled, "The result hasn't come out yet, congratulations, it's too early."

Li Yong's smile widened, and Zhang Zhong's words were equivalent to admitting that the purpose of this event was to break the single-day personal book sales record.

In the past, Li Yong didn't know what a personal book sales record was, and he didn't read much at all before.

Later, I learned calligraphy at Zhang Zhong's place, and gradually came into contact with literature, although in a short period of time, I couldn't compare with those who read books all the year round.

But Li Yong looked back and found that he had been living in a muddle before, but now as he read more and more books, his life became clearer.

Because there is a calligraphy class this morning, Li Yong has not had time to go to the bookstore to buy books, but just now he saw the news report on the bookstore on his mobile phone, and he also saw it, knowing that new book sales are booming today.

"It should be a sure thing to exceed the previous sales record." Li Yong said.

His expression was very excited, because he was about to witness history, and the man who made history was right in front of him.

The previous single-day sales record of personal books was also set by Zhang Zhong, with more than 6000 million copies in a single day.

But the reason why this record was able to be set was because the first and second volumes of "Three-Body" were released at the same time abroad, which increased a lot of sales.

At that time, when the sales volume of more than 6000 million came out, everyone felt incredible. After all, the record before that was also heavy, but the record at that time was more than 4000 million.

Li Yong looked at Zhang Zhong, and said to himself that the master is indeed the master, and he didn't seem to care about such a big matter at all.

It's not that Zhang Zhong didn't take the sales issue to heart at all. After all, many people devoted their efforts to this issue. The company's colleagues worked overtime every day for this issue, just for this day to completely explode.

But he knew that it was already at this point, and it was useless to be nervous. Whether he could break the record and what kind of record he could achieve was basically a certainty.

"What book have you been reading recently?" Zhang Zhong asked Li Yong while putting away his things.

Li Yong replied, "I read your "Border Town" before, and suddenly became interested in these novels about local customs, so I found a few to read, and now I am reading "Water Town."

"Water Village by Yu Dongyu?" Zhang Zhong raised his eyebrows.

Li Yong nodded, "Yes, this book is quite interesting, and its style is different from that of Mr. Zhang, you and Mr. Zhuang Yu."

Zhang Zhong laughed, "Of course it's different. Mr. Yu Dongyu has a distempered personality. Although there are many serious works, they are somewhat humorous. Many works are very interesting to read. This "Water Town" is also the same, with a casual style of writing. , It’s not like a novel, it’s more like an essay, it’s written some rural anecdotes, revealing the interest of being indifferent to the world. Speaking of it, it’s quite suitable for you.”

"I also think it suits me well."

"Furthermore, you can feel the similarities and differences of each school's style when you read the book now, and you have made a lot of progress, and you are a bit like a book reader." Zhang Zhong said.

"Thank you, Teacher Zhang."

Zhang Zhong waved his hand, "You don't need to thank me, I didn't help you with anything. But I also give you some advice, if you have time, you can also find some subsets of classics and history."

"Jingshiziji?" For Li Yong, Jingshiziji is an unfamiliar vocabulary.

Zhang Zhong explained, "It's just some scriptures, history books, poems and songs."

"Mr. Zhang, I understand the history and poems and songs, but do I also need to read the scriptures? I don't really believe in these." Li Yong said.

Zhang Zhong twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "The scriptures do not refer to Buddhist scriptures, like poetry and books Li Yi Chunqiu are all scriptures."

"Oh, I understand." Then Li Yong felt a little embarrassed, "But I don't understand it. It's hard for me to read vernacular Chinese now, let alone these ancient Chinese."

"You can only understand it if you read it, but how can you understand it if you don't read it?" Zhang Zhong thought for a while and then said, "You know I'm teaching, right?"

Li Yong said quickly, "I know, I know, you are the principal of Shizhong College."

"Well, I will open a public class related to ancient prose in the school in the near future. I will send you a schedule later. If you have time, you can attend it." Zhang Zhong said.

Li Yong thought he heard it wrong, and opened his mouth, "Ah?"

Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Use time when you have time, don't force it."

At this moment, Li Yong realized that he had heard correctly, and quickly said, "I have time, I have time, I definitely have time. Thanks to Mr. Li for your kindness, I will definitely study hard. I don't know what you want to teach, I'll go back and prepare well, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to understand the class."

"No, I'll just talk casually, it's not about advanced content." Zhang Zhong patted Li Yong's shoulder, "I'm leaving first, see you in class later."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhong put away his things and walked out of the classroom.

Li Yong stood there for a while, and when Zhang Zhong was about to disappear at the door, Li Yong bowed towards Zhang Zhong's back.

Although he is older than Zhang Zhong, he has truly regarded Zhang Zhong as a teacher. Even though Zhang Zhong may not regard him as a student, he will always remember the help Zhang Zhong gave him.

Sometimes he would be thankful that he walked into Mengmu Xiaozhu by accident at that time, otherwise, his life would never have changed so much as it is now.

It was Zhang Zhong who opened the door for him and showed him a world he had never seen before.

After staying in the classroom for a long time, he didn't realize that he hadn't gone to the bookstore until the cleaning aunt came in to clean up, so he hurried to the bookstore again.

……

On her way home from get off work, Stuart walked straight into the Norton bookstore she frequented.

At eight o'clock tonight, Zhang Zhong's new book will be launched on time.

She came early, just after six o'clock, and took a look around the bookstore. There were quite a lot of people, but it was okay, after all, the new books hadn't started selling yet.

In general, new books are released in the morning, and this is the first time that such an evening release has occurred.

Someone asked the boss in front of the counter, "Boss, the new book should have arrived in the bookstore, why isn't it on sale yet?"

The boss explained with a smile, "I'm sorry, because according to the regulations, the sale will not start until after eight o'clock."

"Boss, can't you be more flexible?"

"I can't be flexible. This is a rule agreed by the channel. If they know that I don't abide by it, they won't give me books in the future, and you won't be able to read new books by then." The boss said.

Listening to the boss's words, Stuart couldn't help but sigh a little. For a bookstore as big as Norton Bookstore, only the distributors used to provide him with the share, but now it's upside down.

(End of this chapter)