Chapter 326 The tree wants to be quiet

Chapter 326 The tree wants to be quiet

How do I trigger the crafting list that just appeared again?

If Gu Lu's idea is correct, then, "Give me this black wallet. For the scarf, do you have a pink one?"

At noon, Gu Lu went straight to the farmers' market stall near the school, which was located on a street outside the farmers' market. It mainly sold autumn trousers, insoles, buttons, nail clippers and other small items.

Gu Lu found a slightly larger stall that was particularly cheap, and the stall owner handed him one.

If it’s just a dozen bucks, don’t ask whether it’s genuine or not.

"Pink—" the stall owner gave me an expression that I understood, "This is it, it's very popular among girls."

"Listen to me, I'm an experienced person." The stall owner's eyes sparkled, and her thick coat couldn't hide her matchmaker temperament. "If you want to succeed, you have to put in some effort. For example, don't buy a ready-made scarf, buy a ball of wool, and knit a vermicelli scarf. I guarantee that any girl will be moved."

"After all, you are so busy studying. If you are willing to spend time on it, it means you like it." The stall owner is very experienced.

"Aunt, what you said makes a lot of sense and has benefited me a lot. But this pink scarf is bought for my sister." Gu Lu responded.

"Oh - I got the wrong one. This makes me so embarrassed." The stall owner took out two pink scarves and said, "Let's take these two. They are warm and affordable."

"Just this one, could you please calculate how much it costs?" said Gu Lu.

The total bill was 38 yuan, the scarf was 15 yuan, the black wallet was 25 yuan, and the cheaper two yuan were a discount offered by the stall owner.

Gu Lu didn't think he had overpaid, but the other party's initiative to offer a discount made him a little panicked. Was it too expensive? Otherwise, forty is a whole number, how could it be rounded to thirty-eight?

The stall owner first put the ball of wool back into the box, then took out a red plastic bag to pack the two items.

The moment you take over, the brain's synthetic sequence is triggered.

Whether it was too expensive or not, and other thoughts, all these thoughts in Gu Lu's mind disappeared in an instant.

Gu Lu thanked him and left happily.

"She said it was a gift for her sister, and she was jumping up and down when she got the gift. It's obvious that they are in love. Nothing can escape my sharp eyes." The stall owner thought to herself.

Gu Lu, who was forced to "fall in love", is currently researching a new work, and the three labels have become "Pattern Man".

Details: Contains 18 short stories by Ray Bradbury, a psychological drama set in the vast universe, both thrilling and beautiful.

After the trigger, Gu Lu showed the same smile as Ikari Gendo. Everything was as he expected. Sure enough, classmates, look, with the example of King Guru in front, reading more books is good for time travel.

Among the 18 short stories, "The Prairie" is one that Gu Lu remembers vividly. It uses a little sci-fi creativity to succinctly describe the responsibilities of parents. Wallets and scarves also appear in this story.

Ray Bradbury was very cautious about the development of science and technology. Unlike Liu Cixin’s romantic science fiction, Bradbury was worried that humans would be “tamed” by technology, and even more worried that technology would become a barrier for artificial classes. That’s why he wrote in “Rocket”:

"You'll never be able to go to space. That's for the rich." He shook his graying head, recalling... "The future has become the present! Have we ever ridden a rocket? No! We still live in shacks like our ancestors did."

Bradbury's concerns were very specific, and his writing style can actually be seen in Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

The Nongmao Street is closer to the Zijing Community if you walk over here. In order to save time, Gu Lu decided not to go back to the community office.

Go straight to your new home.

"You're so slow. It's been two or three weeks since the convex mirror turning signal was turned on, and it still hasn't been turned on." The key point is that the crosswalk is at the street entrance, a long distance away from the entrance of the community.

People are really distorted by the environment. At first, Gu Lu insisted on walking more than 200 meters. Later, when he saw people crossing the road, he looked like a fool, and then Gu Lu just went with the flow.

After waiting for the traffic to decrease, Gu Lu crossed over.

In fact, it is not very dangerous to go back to the community from outside, because cars and pedestrians can see each other. But it is more uncomfortable to leave the community.

What did he do when he returned to his new home? He wrote two new science fiction works and sent them to the White Society in Japan.

While the popularity of Flowers for Algernon is still there, it's not too much to take advantage of your own popularity, right? A collection of science fiction novels will definitely take advantage of it!

Just "2023", "Prairie" and "Highway".

Originally it was supposed to be two articles, but the first one was written by Gu Lu himself. He knew that he was definitely not as good as the great writers, so he just regarded 2023 as a gift.

But sometimes the gift can also become the protagonist...

The copying of "The Prairie" and "The Highway" went very smoothly, and the remaining one will require some thought on the choice of words and sentence structure.

In fact, if he opens his Bilibili account during the lunch break, he will know how exaggerated the current situation is.

As mentioned earlier, Wang Ban discovered that Gu Lu’s video comment section on Bilibili had become a gathering place for buying millet. There were already many readers who didn’t get the surrounding area wandering around, including Wang Ban, and now I’m releasing the link.

It was quick! In less than two hours, 10,000 sets of the joint bookmarks were sold out.

Chatting and laughing, he said: "You have hundreds of thousands of fans on Bilibili, and you only put 10,000 sets on the shelves? Are you kidding me? Restock me quickly, one set for each person!"

Ming Haoran: "Sold out? Didn't you say in the comments section before that this bookmark is not good-looking and you don't want to buy it? I think you are brothers, and you are playing tricks on me?"

Support Group 9527: "50 for a set, I'll pay for the postage!"

Hun Shangxue: "What on earth happened? Why is everything gone when I come back from school?"

Wait for the comments, it seems like it's going to cause a stir.

This time Wang Ban got it, and he bought four sets by himself.

If there is any place in China in 2013 with strong consumption power over the surrounding areas, it is only Bilibili.

The people in charge of post-sales operations at the major universities had no sales experience and did not set a limit of one set per account. Therefore, only about 6,000 people bought 10,000 sets.

The person in charge, Teacher Xiao, was looking at the computer intermittently and left the computer in the middle of the time because of something else.

"Teacher Xiao, this is the publicity plan produced by our School of Economics and Business Administration." said Vice Dean Cen.

After taking the blue folder, Teacher Xiao nodded immediately and said, "I will study it carefully."

"School leaders are very concerned about this matter because according to writer Gu Lu's fame, his works have been translated into Japanese and are selling very well in Japan. Considering his high popularity in the UK, an English version is not far away," said Vice President Cen.

Damn, that makes sense. He is quite famous, at least in China, and doesn't need a book to enhance his reputation. But he does need it abroad!

"I will make good arrangements and try to sell all 10,000 sets." Teacher Xiao responded with determination this time.

Vice Dean Cen smiled upon hearing this, waved his hand and said, "It's not that exaggerated. Our school will not set unachievable tasks."

"We conducted a survey and found that in 2011, the writer Zheng Yuanjie made Shuke and Beta bookmarks, but only to sets were sold throughout the year," said Vice Principal Cen. "We only sold one-third of them. It's really not good. Our school is also short of prizes."

Teacher Xiao also had a clue in mind. To put it bluntly, the school was willing to give some money to help Zhongda and Xiaolu in Flowers for Algernon have a good start.

In fact, the bookmark sales of Zheng Yuanjie were purely due to his ignorance. If the bookmarks were changed into toys of Shukebeta, the sales would at least increase several times. Then Vice Principal Cen told Teacher Xiao about some of the spirits mentioned in the meeting, but since they were useless, he skipped them.

After this jump, Teacher Xiao also went to the school cafeteria to have dinner, and when he returned to his office, two or three hours had passed.

"What can the School of Economics and Business Administration produce..." Teacher Xiao opened it and he took a look.

There is nothing new in it. There are many promotional plans mentioned in it, half of which cannot be done because of the lack of budget. The other half, Mr. Xiao can also think of, such as advertising on Tianya Community and Douban, who doesn't know it.

"But maybe they forgot about the Gu Lu forum. I remember there were a lot of people in the Gu Lu forum." Teacher Xiao had some additions to the plan after reading it.

Teacher Xiao has also read two books by Gu Lu. Gu Lu has been the most popular writer in the literary world in the past two or three years. If you have the habit of reading, it is difficult not to read these two books.

"Ok?"

"Why does Taobao's system always have problems? Before, 10,000 became 100,000, and now 10,000 has become zero again."

"Why is it still like this after refreshing?"

Wait, Teacher Xiao clicked on the sales records and found a series of payment records.

There are thirty or forty pieces of information per page, almost three hundred pages.

"Are they really sold out?" Mr. Xiao was a little incredulous. As a person born in the 1980s, he fully understood the influence of Mr. Zheng Yuanjie across the country. Think about Mr. Zheng's data, and then look at yourself. Don't you think it's too exaggerated?

Then the facts were laid out before him, and Mr. Xiao had to believe it even if he didn't want to. He even thought of two possibilities. Could it be that the school had already started to act secretly? Or was it that Gu Lu himself had come up with some tricks to boost sales?

Both conjectures were eliminated by Teacher Xiao himself as unrealistic and unnecessary.

So Teacher Xiao rushed to Vice President Cen's office. Fortunately, he arrived in time because the president was about to leave after get off work.

"What's the matter? Teacher Xiao, have you encountered any difficulties?" asked Vice President Cen.

"Dean, 10,000 sets have been sold out," said Teacher Xiao.

"?"

What kind of look did Vice Dean Cen give Teacher Xiao? It was like looking at a strange creature, trying to figure out what it was.

Oh, I just explained the situation to you in the afternoon, and then you came to you in the evening and said it was sold out. Do you think there are two idiots in the room?

The purpose is to prevent you from selling all the products, and the school will then provide a guarantee. No one provides a guarantee from the beginning. Do you understand the rules of the game?

If Teacher Xiao hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it, so he understood the vice-principal's look.

Let the facts speak for themselves. Teacher Xiao borrowed the computer from the dean's office and retrieved the background information piece by piece.

Very intuitive.

The dean's look changed from suspicion to confusion, and finally to shock.

"What's going on?" asked Vice President Cen.

"It may be that Mr. Gu Lu's readers are more willing to consume things like bookmarks," Mr. Xiao speculated.

Vice President Cen then remembered that Gu Lu said to make more...

If King Gollum wants to exchange his crown for the King of Peripherals, he has to do it step by step.

He is currently at home.

new home.

"The tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop. I have not encountered many unwarranted attacks in China. It should be the credit of Uncle Jian and Teacher Yu Xinyao." Gu Lu hung up the phone with agent Yao Xiaoju.

The agent on the phone brought good news and bad news.

The good news is that due to the success of The Little Prince, Puffin Books decided to invest promotional resources in Mr. Holmes to move it from C-level to B-level.

As for A-level, they are the first-line writers in Europe and the United States.

The bad news is that Gu Lu was dissed by the British again.

This time it’s not a journalist, nor a cultural critic, but also a writer.

[I am not Kane Featherstone and I will not make unwarranted slanders.

So please don't slander me, Mr. Gu Lu. Kane deserves what he got, but I'm speaking with facts. I believe that the gentleman Chinese writer Gu Lu will not make me the protagonist of his novel, right?

In the 1980s, Mr. Marquez visited China, and the trip to China left a very important impression on him.

What's your impression?

Unauthorized publications of works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera can be seen everywhere in roadside bookstores. Mr. Marquez was very angry about this situation and even refused to authorize Huaxia to publish One Hundred Years of Solitude for a long time.

Why do I mention this? Because it shows that the book publishing market in China at that time was very chaotic.

After more than 20 years of development, has China's book market improved?

Not sure! But an immature market cannot produce first-class writers.

China's talented writers can write fairy tales because they are children themselves, so they can read the world from an innocent child's perspective.

He was able to write the Weymouth series of horror works because he faced the most terrifying student exams in the world and also suffered from Kane's stupid discrimination. The combination of these two feelings led to the creation of the series.

So we see the run-down town of Weymouth where exclusion and oppression are everywhere.

"Only authors with experience can write good works, and dreamers can only become philosophers." said the famous writer Vivin Punk.

The talent of Chinese writers has always followed this logic.

Today I saw ads for Sherlock Holmes spin-offs in the Metro, and I can’t imagine he has the experience to write them well! ]
Puffin Books stepped up its promotion and immediately attracted other British writers.

Kane was very happy when you attacked Gu Lu, but he didn't like your saying that he deserved it.

If you are not happy, then you are not happy. Godie is definitely a smart man. He learned from Kane's experience and stood up almost on the "corpse" of the Sun reporter.

As a writer, Godie's main themes are horror, suspense and mystery, which completely collide with Gu Lu.

He first distanced himself from Kane, and then what he told was not an attack, although it was a bit of a substitution.

Finally, it also explains why Gu Lu is so talented.

In short, he wants to step on China to get to the top!
(End of this chapter)