Chapter 178 You are the acquaintance!
Chapter 178 You are the acquaintance!
"Let's go to the fifth floor." "Look at this floor map. There are no books for sale on the fifth floor." "Just go when I tell you to. Why are you so talkative?"...
Going out with your parents has its advantages and disadvantages...
"Dad, why do we have to travel so far to visit a bookstore? I just want to buy an exercise book, what a waste of time." Twelve-year-old Xiao Li said he didn't understand what his father was thinking.
His home is above Dayan in Dukou District, and it took him more than half an hour to take the bus to get here.
"When your mother wants to buy new clothes, she doesn't just want to buy books for you," said teacher Li Riyao.
"It's not a waste of time to buy books and new clothes." Xiao Li's mother Jingtong said with a smile.
Xiao Li couldn't understand what she said, "Mom, your closet is full of new clothes, why do you want to buy more clothes? You might as well buy some for Dad."
"It was because you went out to buy the exercise book that gave me the opportunity." Jing Tong said jokingly, "So this time it's your fault."
In the past, students had to pay for exercise books in Fog City, and teachers or the school would order them directly. But last year, a parent reported that the school had a profit-making relationship with a certain bookstore. The Xinhua Bookstore was obviously cheaper, but the school's bulk purchases made them more expensive.
After investigation and reporting, the situation was found to be true. Since then, when buying exercise books, either the teacher tells the students to buy them themselves, or the class monitor uses class funds to make unified purchases for the entire class. In short, the money no longer passes through the school. No. 8 Middle School uses the latter method of class purchase, while Baihua Primary School, where Xiao Li attends, uses the former method, where each student buys his own.
"Dad, please take care of your wife!" Xiao Li was unhappy.
"Okay, go to the bookstore and buy the exercise book you want first." Teacher Li said.
Two adults and one child walked into the Xinhua Bookstore, went straight to the second floor, and quickly bought the exercise books they wanted.
There are many students on this floor. After all, it’s the end of the semester, and it’s not just Baihua Primary School that needs to buy workbooks.
"There is a writer holding a book signing event up there." "I heard that he is a student who is very good at writing." "Is he so good that I have to mention it?" "He won two first prizes in national writing awards and was on Tiantian 630." "His rival also wrote a book, and his name seems to be Gu Wang"...
The people passing by were chatting, which made Teacher Li stunned for a moment, but he quickly recovered.
"Let's go up and take a look at what kind of student writer he is." Jing Tong suddenly said.
Teacher Li smiled with a look of triumph. Wait, something is wrong.
Hiding his smile, Teacher Li pretended to be unhappy and said, "Okay, let's go and take a look."
"Oh oh oh," Xiao Li made a monkey sound and rushed to the escalator in a hurry. He was not interested in the author's autograph, but as a sixth grader, he was very interested in watching the fun.
The group of three came to the fifth floor, where there was a small library. It was originally very spacious, but at this moment it became crowded because there were too many people queuing, with no less than eighty people estimated to be there.
The winding team looked like earthworms, which made Xiao Li feel a little scared at first sight.
"There are so many people here. Mom and Dad, please wait for me for a moment. I'll go see what's going on." Xiao Li was like a mouse, about to rush in.
"Don't push forward, just queue up if you want to watch," said Teacher Li.
Just queue up. Xiao Li was relatively obedient and the three of them lined up.
The team progressed very quickly, because Gu Lu signed two or three people per minute, and generally there were two or three parents with their children.
"She looks really young." "Nonsense, she's still in the first year of high school." "Why don't you learn from others?" "Other high schools have started writing books, but you still don't like reading." "This kid will be amazing in the future, I'm afraid he will become a great writer like Jin Yong and Gu Long."...
"Great writers like Jin Yong and Gu Long? Isn't that too exaggerated?" Teacher Li suddenly spoke to the person in the queue in front of him.
There is a survival guide in the foggy city. People in the foggy city have relatively loud voices. Generally, locals with social phobia will control their volume. If you hear someone not controlling their volume in public, then there is no doubt that as long as you start a conversation, you can start a conversation.
"How is it exaggerated? Let me tell you, Jin Yong wrote his first novel, The Book and the Sword, when he was 31 years old. Gu Long was a little more talented, writing his first novel, The Blue Sky Sword, when he was 22 years old, and Jue Wu started writing books at the age of 35. Which of them could publish a book at the age of 16?"
The elder brother who was speaking must be a fan of martial arts himself, otherwise he wouldn't know exactly when Jin Gu Jue and the other two started writing books.
There is no Liang Yusheng in the parallel world, and his name was replaced by an author named Jue Wu, but Jin and Gu have not changed. This can be seen from Gu Lu's campus life. Zhou Lin used the Nine Yin White Bone Claw and the Heaven and Earth Intersection Yin and Yang Twist.
"What you said makes sense." Teacher Li smiled and agreed.
Seeing her husband suddenly talking and laughing with strangers, Jingtong became more determined in her decision, because Teacher Li would not normally do this.
"Of course it makes sense. My cousin's brother's wife's sister's daughter's husband runs a supermarket. They know each other." The martial arts fan lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious, but in fact his voice did not get smaller at all. "I heard that he has been very independent since he was young. He didn't need his parents to take care of him when he was eleven or twelve years old. Such a child is a genius." "Renjia" is often used in Sichuan and Chongqing dialects. It is different from the delicate "renjia" used by little girls. "Renjia" in Sichuan and Chongqing dialects is a pronoun for "he".
"It's just like scratching a lottery ticket. This kind of child can't be educated at all." The martial arts fan brother was still worried that Teacher Li didn't understand, so he added, "Don't compare your own child with him. There's no need. Tell me, is he a child?"
The martial arts fan brother suddenly said to Xiao Li, who nodded blankly at first, then came to his senses and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Yes, yes, yes."
Xiao Li no longer reads martial arts novels, but which post-90s generation doesn't know about the TV series adapted from Jin Yong and Gu Long? This guy is even compared to Jin Yong and Gu Long, what should he get?
Time passed very quickly while we were chatting. After about half an hour, it was Xiao Li's turn, but Xiao Li only had an exercise book in his hand.
"We forgot to buy it on the third floor. Can you sell me one here directly?" Teacher Li's words resolved his son's embarrassment.
"No problem, of course no problem, here." Camp editor Zhang Xian immediately handed over a book. He sat next to the signing table in case of any special circumstances.
There was a pile of "The Little Prince" in front of Zhang Xian to prevent this from happening.
Hey, what a familiar voice! Gu Lu, who was busy signing, looked up and saw his junior high school teacher!
"Teacher Li, why are you here?" Gu Lu stood up and greeted him.
Special situations arise suddenly. Zhang Xian first gave a pause gesture to the publicity staff in the nearby Sha District. Yes, there were reporters at the event.
Zhang Xian asked: "Who is this?"
"Let me introduce you. This is my junior high school teacher, Mr. Li. Mr. Li has given me great help in giving me the opportunity to embark on the path of writing," Gu Lu introduced.
"So it's Teacher Li. I remember Teacher Gu mentioned him several times when he was interviewed by the newspaper." Zhang Xian's professional ability is really impeccable. He even reads the newspapers in which the writers were interviewed.
He praised, "Now I have met the real teacher. Teacher Li is really a good teacher who can make students do the right thing."
“No, no, I just did what a teacher should do.” Teacher Li first responded to the camp editor, and then to the student, “I bought some teaching materials for my child and happened to see someone signed it, so I came to take a look, but I didn’t expect…”
Marketing editor Zhang Xian gestured to the reporter next to him to continue filming. Of course, he was going to step back away from the camera. Today, only readers and authors could appear in front of the camera.
"Oh, this is Teacher Li's child?" Gu Lu said, "Want to watch The Little Prince?"
"Yeah, yeah," Xiao Li nodded. Actually, he didn't watch it, but in this kind of atmosphere, he had to watch it!
Gu Lu signed his name and took a photo with Xiao Li at his request.
"You still have a book signing, and business is more important. We'll leave now and come back to school when we have time."
Teacher Li realized that he had been delayed for quite a long time, so he immediately took Xiao Li away, as there was still a long queue behind them.
The book signing event returned to normal. The line was winding around before, and it was still like that half an hour later, because readers kept queuing up.
Gu Lu, who had never attended a book signing event, overlooked one thing. There would indeed only be two or three hundred readers attending a book signing event, but many customers who happened to be at the Xinhua Bookstore would also join in. Buying a book was not expensive anyway.
"That's an acquaintance!" The martial arts drama big brother didn't feel embarrassed at all for pretending to be the real protagonist. Instead, he thought, "This is something to brag about. Gu Lu's former teacher and I are friends!"
There were also parents holding their children's hands, who followed and chatted with him, "Teacher, you are the class teacher of that genius writer. What school are you from?"
"How do you train a student to become such a talented writer?" another parent asked.
He didn't want to respond, but when Teacher Li heard this question, he stopped and said, "If I really had the ability to train writers, I would have stopped being a teacher a long time ago. So Gu Lu was not trained by me. He just likes writing and reading."
Teacher Li shared some experience in inspiring students to read books. Reading is a good thing, and even if you don’t write, it is very helpful for writing essays.
The people present had different expressions. Some parents listened but forgot after a while, while some parents pretended to listen.
Xiao Li fell into deep thought. He had absolutely no intention of going to No. 37 Middle School. His goal was to get into Gangshi Middle School.
It's not that Gangshi is better than Sanshiqi, it's just that if your parents are teachers in the same school, then it's a nightmare! Xiao Li is not stupid.
“Is No. 37 Middle School not bad…” Xiao Li thought as he looked at his father who was talking so eloquently.
He had always heard his father say that one of his students was a very talented writer, but Xiao Li never took it seriously. He was the future successor of the country? What was the point of just talking?
But today, Gu Lu, such a great writer, really identified with his father, and the shock was quite great.
(End of this chapter)