Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 169 Peng Peng's Gallery

Lin Dong and the others would never have thought that there was no need to go to Weiyu to give their opinions. Everything they said now has been heard by the fifth-grade vegetable.

Zhang Zhong has also seriously considered their opinions in his heart. Speaking of which, he has indeed written a few short stories, plus the song "Mountain People" and two fairy tales. book.

However, this is a bit of a suspicion of speculation. Die-hard fans may pay for it, but ordinary readers may not go to the bookstore to buy it.

He thought about it, in addition to the "Mountain People" that he had already published, he usually wrote a few poems, and adding them in, it would be better to have more fresh content.

After the book club meeting ended, Zhang Zhong stayed alone.

Zhang Junwei looked at Zhang Zhong eagerly, "Mr. Zhang, you heard what they said just now, take a look?"

"It's a good suggestion, let me think about it. By the way, isn't Tong Can here today?"

Since the last time Jiaohu said goodbye, the two of them had less contact. During the Chinese New Year, Tong Can called Zhang Zhong a New Year's call, and also talked about the development of the game by the way.

He spoke in a general way, but the situation is still very optimistic. Although their game came out relatively slowly and did not seize the opportunity, but because of Zhang Zhong's name, the follow-up development was relatively smooth.

Hearing Zhang Zhong's question, Zhang Junwei smiled and said, "Tong Can is very busy recently. Didn't he set up a club in Jiaohu? He runs there when he has nothing to do. The book club rarely comes here."

Zhang nodded and said, "Then you have to worry more."

"Hey, why am I bothering? Tong Can pays the fee. If I offer a place, it can also bring some popularity to my small shop."

Zhang Zhong smiled, "Okay, I'll go first."

"Well, walk slowly."

……

Zhang Chong returned to Meng Mu's Xiaozhu, and Peng Peng was painting seriously. Xu Yuhan walked up to Zhang Chong when he saw Zhang Chong coming back.

"Mr. Zhang, I have something to tell you. When I was tidying up the studio, I found that Pengpeng had stored a lot of paintings here, and they were all in the cubicle. My cubicle was about to be put away." No more."

Zhang nodded, "Okay, I see, then I will get all these paintings back today."

Xu Yuhan smiled and said, "I'm not afraid of taking up my space, but it's a pity that Pengpeng has drawn so many paintings, and they are all piled up in the cubicle with dark ones."

Zhang Chong raised his eyebrows, Xu Yuhan said casually, but he had other thoughts.

Since the paintings are to be hung, they don’t have to be hung at home. If I can get a studio for Peng Peng and hang all her paintings in it, as long as I walk into the studio in the future, all I see are Peng Peng’s paintings. Quite interesting.

If Pengpeng really takes the road of painting in the future, these paintings will also be a precious memory of her journey as a painter.

Just imagine, in a long gallery, as soon as you enter the door, you can admire Pengpeng's paintings over the years along the track of time, just like sitting in a time machine.

……

After returning, Zhang Zhong started to do two things.

The first thing is to get a collection suggested by book friends, and the second is to find a suitable gallery for Pengpeng.

Zhang Zhong picked out all the poems he had written in his study in the past, such as "In front of the door", and then put them together with the short stories he posted on the Internet to make a list, and planned to discuss with the publishing house in a few days publishing.

As for the gallery, the progress was somewhat beyond Zhang Zhong's expectations. After searching the Internet for a short time, he found that Jiangyang had a shop for rent. This shop was previously run by someone else as a gallery, but he gave up for some reason.

Zhang Zhong quickly contacted the owner and rented it directly for ten years. He originally wanted to buy it, but the other party was unwilling to sell it, so he had to settle for the next best thing and sign a long-term lease.

Since it was originally a gallery, Zhang Zhong didn't have to worry about redecorating it. Zhang Zhong went directly to Mengmu Xiaozhu to move all of Pengpeng's paintings to this gallery.

The gallery is very large, and the paintings of Peng Peng hanging in it still look a bit empty, but Zhang Zhong believes that these walls will be full of words of Peng Peng in a short time.

By the time he got these two things done, it was already the end of February.

The end of February is a relatively important period for Zhang Zhong, because he has two books to be published, namely "Murder on the Orient Express" under the name of a fifth-grade vegetative person and "Wives and Concubines" under the name of Su Ai.

Although it was recommended by Zhuang Yu before, compared with "Murder on the Orient Express", "Wives and Concubines" is much less popular.

This is inevitable, neither Su Ai's fame nor the market of traditional literature can be compared with "Murder on the Orient Express".

"Murder on the Orient Express" was released one day earlier, but when Zhang Zhong went to the bookstore the next day, there were still "Murder on the Orient Express" on the bookshelves, and the new book "Wives and Concubines" that was just released that day was released. Crowded in a corner.

Even the poster for Wives and Concubines is behind Murder on the Orient Express.

Zhang Zhong had expected it a long time ago, and he never thought of letting these two books compete in the ring from the beginning to the end.

And the facts have also proved that the overlap between the audiences of these two books is not very high. In the case of "Murder on the Orient Express" being released strongly, "Wives and Concubines" still got a good score of 25 copies on the first day.

For a newcomer, this is almost unimaginable, but because of Zhuang Yu's recommendation before, it is only natural for such a thing to happen.

Harvest Literature is of course already happy. You know, their initial plan was to print 50 copies for the first time, and then changed it to [-] copies.

But even so, the first printing of 50 copies seems to be far from enough. Fang Qing asked the printing factory to put down other work that day, and concentrate on printing "Wives and Concubines" to prevent out of stock.

However, the small miracle of the sales of "Wives and Concubines" only occupied a very small space in the major media, and the largest space was not the recently popular "Murder on the Orient Express", but the previously released "Dedication". A Bouquet for Algernon".

The reason why the media rushed to report "A Bouquet for Algernon" was because the overseas sales of this book reached 600 million copies in less than a month, which is an extremely astonishing figure.

Of the 600 million copies sold, 200 million of them were pre-orders, because the printing factory contacted by Jidang Literature could not keep up with the sales speed.

This is the result of cooperation with other printing houses later, otherwise, the pre-order sales would not be 200 million, but 400 million copies.

For this reason, "Southern Weekly" reported this news with an entire page, and their headlines were very exaggerated.

"The Light of China—the overseas conquest of fifth-grade vegetatives!"

(End of this chapter)