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Jiang Conghua is 50 years old this year. He has taken over the family business from his father since he was 20 years old. So far he has been a bookstore owner for more than 20 years.

Because of his family environment, he has access to all kinds of books since he was a child, and his reading volume is amazing. Among them, he especially loves novels, which is one of the reasons why he is willing to take over the bookstore because of his love.

As a middle-aged and elderly person who has read books since childhood, Jiang Conghua can be said to have witnessed the glory and decline of martial arts novels with his own eyes.

When Jiang Conghua was a child, the bookstore also had the mode of renting and reading, that is, paying a few cents to the bookstore, which is entitled to the end of the week, and will be returned after reading.

People in that era lacked a single form of entertainment, and even TV sets hadn’t spread to every household. Even families with TVs couldn’t watch them all day long, because there weren’t so many TV dramas on TV at that time. look.

Therefore, reading novels became a popular form of entertainment at that time. At that time, the bookstore was always full of people, people who came to borrow and return books all day long, and some people just sat in the bookstore looking for books. Just find a place to sit down and watch slowly.

In that era, martial arts novels were the most popular and best-selling books, bar none.

However, as Jiang Conghua grew up, the number of people in the bookstore gradually decreased, and it was no longer as lively as before, and the number of people who came to buy and borrow books gradually began to decrease.

That is to say, in recent years, the books purchased by the bookstore have changed from various magazines and novels to various exercises for elementary and middle school students, as well as supplementary teaching materials. The number of talents who come to the bookstore has gradually increased, and the business of the bookstore is also better than before. a lot.

The torrent of the times is rolling in, technology is constantly improving, and people's entertainment methods are becoming more and more sophisticated.

The progress of the times is constantly accelerating, and the pace of people's lives is also constantly accelerating, and what follows is that people's entertainment methods are becoming more and more impetuous.

From the beginning of various KTVs, game consoles, to the emergence of computers, the popularization of the Internet, and finally to the popularization of smart phones.

Jiang Conghua always feels that people nowadays seem to be different from before. It seems that few people can calm down and read a novel well.

There are many reasons for the decline of physical books from glory to decline. One of the reasons is the diversification of people's entertainment methods and the gradual acceleration of the pace of life.

But in the final analysis, the overall level of novel creation has indeed dropped a lot compared to before, and Jiang Conghua always feels that this is the most important reason.

However, Jiang Conghua was surprised by the unusual traffic in the bookstore in recent days.

The reason is that a novel called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was constantly asked by readers who came to the bookstore. The more depressing thing is that Jiang Conghua didn't buy much of this set of books at the beginning.

Because the current structure of the bookstore has begun to slowly remove those entertainment books, most of the bookstores are books about student textbooks and practice questions, because this is the wealth code.

It's not shabby to earn money.

The few sets of books that were previously sold out had already been sold out, and Jiang Conghua didn't care too much at first.

After all, this set of books was sold out after being in the store for a week, which is considered a normal sales volume.

Because he was busy, he didn't notice that the stock in the martial arts novel section was gone. When he found that more and more readers came to ask about this book, he remembered to find a supplier to buy it.

What made Jiang Conghua dumbfounded was that the supplier gave him the answer that they are also out of stock now. Line up slowly.

Jiang Conghua was stunned when he heard the news. The last time there was a shortage of martial arts novels in the bookstore was more than ten years ago.

Fortunately, Jiang Conghua is not a rigid middle-aged man. On the contrary, he is more fashionable than most of his peers and even his back. Various online social software and platforms are very smooth, and there are many online friends and group chats .

It's just that Jiang Conghua usually doesn't click on it when he has nothing to do.

This "Legend of the Condor Heroes" quickly aroused Jiang Conghua's curiosity, and he wanted to see what kind of book could still be so popular in this era.

Opened the small website and searched for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and found Kong Rouyuan's previous video at a glance. Seeing that the most popular video had reached tens of millions of views, Jiang Conghua couldn't help but muttered: "There are really videos, With such a high playback volume, it’s no wonder that so many people came to the bookstore to ask questions during this period.”

While talking about Jiang Conghua, he clicked on the video. The fact that so many people came to the bookstore to ask about this book in the past few days, most of it should be due to this video.

After spending nearly two hours watching the entire series of videos about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Jiang Conghua's eyes brightened.

It's a pity that I haven't read this novel so far, and the content of the video is not as detailed as in the novel after all.

In addition, as a person who has read novels since he was a child, Jiang Conghua always believes that the most ideal way of expressing a good story is to express it through words.

However, the production of this video can be regarded as extremely detailed. The story itself is an excellent story. Coupled with the excellent skills of the narrator, it is not surprising that this video can be so popular.

It's a pity that I didn't see the physical book of this book first, and then watch this video. When I read it, I will inevitably lose a lot of fun.

But this still can't change Jiang Conghua's strong desire to take a look at the "Legend of the Condor Heroes".

After chatting with the supplier just now, he learned that they were also out of stock, Jiang Conghua gave up the idea of ​​getting the book from them. According to them, it is unlikely that this book will be available for him in the short term.

Jiang Conghua didn't care much about earning less money. After all, he has made a lot of money by earning students' money in recent years. It doesn't make much difference for him to earn more or less.

But after watching Kong Rouyuan's video, Jiang Conghua felt as if he was scratching an itch in his heart. If the video was so exciting, wouldn't the martial arts world expressed in words make him, a decades-old bookworm, more excited.

Jiang Conghua thought about it, and he simply found his friend who is also the owner of the bookstore who usually plays cards and drinks with him, and planned to ask them if they had any extra stock in their hands.

Jiang Conghua is a man of action, a person who thinks about it and will do it. He took out his mobile phone and opened the WeChat group chat.

"Brothers, have you heard of a very popular martial arts novel recently?"

Jiang Conghua didn't ask directly, but inquired about it on the sidelines, and soon his question was answered. We are both bookstore owners, and we all have a lot of free time, and because we often sit together, there is not much time between conversations. It's cautious.

"Oh, Lao Jiang was talking about the novel called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". It's really popular recently. My store has sold out of stock. It's really evil. It's still so popular these days. martial arts novels."

"Hey, don't tell me just now. I don't know if you have read this book. After I read it, I think this martial arts novel is better than any novel I have read before. He can be popular in this era. Not surprising!"

After seeing the news of the other person, Jiang Conghua was overjoyed. This was the answer he was waiting for.

People who have read it definitely have extra books in their hands, and Jiang Conghua is already thinking about how to borrow the other party's books.

While Jiang Conghua was thinking, other people's bubbling appeared in the group chat, "There is nothing wrong with what Lao Li said. I didn't expect that in this era, there are still people writing martial arts novels, and they can write so brilliantly. Back then What a ghost."

"What's more, you don't know. If I say that this book is written by a young man who is less than 30 years old, would you believe me?"

"True or not, the style of writing in this book and the historical materials in it are quite exquisite, not to mention, one can tell at a glance that the author's knowledge is extensive, and the principles in this book are not like a young man can understand." awareness."

"I didn't believe it at first, but isn't my daughter a star chaser? The girl who is very popular recently is called Li Xingruo. Then when she saw the famous name of this book, she told me about that female star. Her husband's name is Zhang Songnian."

"It's unlikely, it's just the same name, there are quite a few people with the same name in this world."

"If it's really the same name, I won't talk to you about it. I checked it out. This Zhang Songnian is amazing. He has multiple identities as a screenwriter, animation director, and songwriter. He has also reached the top level in his field. He is the hottest recently. He wrote those few movies and the few songs that were played all over the street, and now I am afraid that he has to be more than one novelist."

"This is really unbelievable. The idea of ​​'a great man, serve the country and the people' actually came from the hands of a young man. He is really young and promising. No wonder all the female stars fall in love with him. This novel is better than my previous one. I have read more than a hundred times the martial arts novels."

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Jiang Conghua just came out to throw a topic, but he didn't expect these people to chat directly.

Seeing the Zhang Songnian they were discussing, Jiang Conghua took out his mobile phone and searched.

Li Xingruo can now be regarded as a top player in the entertainment industry, and as Li Xingruo's husband, Zhang Songnian, also has a lot of attention on the Internet.

Because Jiang Conghua directly found Zhang Songnian's related videos as soon as he searched.

Seeing Zhang Songnian's delicate yet masculine handsome face, Jiang Conghua couldn't help touching the hair on his forehead, and then expressed his emotion.

"It's so handsome, it's almost as good as when I was young."

However, the calm smile on Jiang Conghua's face disappeared as he saw Zhang Songnian's works introduced one after another and his identity revealed.

This guy is so terrifying!
From the few words chatted by other people in the group just now, Jiang Conghua actually didn't have much idea about Zhang Songnian's identities.

However, after watching the video and knowing all Zhang Songnian's masterpieces, Jiang Conghua once thought that this guy is just like the protagonists of the group of online novels, maybe he has cheated.

No wonder he was able to write a popular martial arts novel against the times.

Jiang Conghua is now more and more interested in the novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

After switching back to the group chat page, Jiang Conghua saw that other people had chatted dozens of floors, and the conversation was completely open.

Jiang Conghua didn't hide it anymore, and just went over all the people who were chatting hotly, "Old brothers, you should have the book "Legend of the Condor Heroes" in your hand, I haven't read it yet, can you give it to me?" Thank you so much for borrowing it!"

However, Jiang Conghua's thoughts came to nothing, and soon someone replied: "Stop making trouble, you, who own a bookstore, don't own this novel?"

"Hey, I think this is something that Lao Jiang can do. After all, his store has been full of textbooks for students in the past few years, and the money he earns is really crazy."

"It makes sense, but it's useless to ask me about this matter. I believe you all know that this book is out of stock now. At least it will be difficult to have new books in my store in a short time. Old Jiang, please ask other people."

"Hey, who isn't? It's the same situation in my store."

"Me too!"

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After Jiang Conghua was ridiculed by everyone, the corner of his mouth twitched.

This group of people looks like they are pretending to be crazy and stupid. Of course, he knows that there are no such books in everyone's store now, and he is not a fool. It's ready.

What I want is not the answer at all.

"Don't pretend you guys, I don't believe you don't have a collection of two sets." Jiang Conghua gritted his teeth and typed this sentence and sent it.

"No, no, no set, all sold out, the book in my hand was also bought by a reader, the unpacked book, he is even willing to add money, what can I do?"

"I have it in my hand, but I haven't finished it. After I finish it, it's not impossible to lend it to Old Jiang. It will be delivered to you in a few days."

"You old boy is really enthusiastic. I'm afraid the new book will arrive in a few days. I think Lao Jiang might as well wait a few days first, hahahaha."

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After a few middle-aged people teased and chatted, Jiang Conghua finally got his wish and borrowed a set of books from everyone.

Without further ado, Jiang Conghua handed over the store to his wife, and drove to his old friend's house to pick up books.

In middle age, he has earned a lot of money. Whether it is internal or external, Jiang Conghua can't do it anymore.

His sons and daughters already have their own lives. This life is quite smooth and complete, but there are still some regrets.

Although he has earned a lot of money by relying on bonuses in the past few years, his favorite stories are always those stories in the world of novels that are amazing and full of ups and downs.

This is the only thing he can pursue at present. (end of this chapter)