Babao Zhai, a well-known long-established restaurant in Peiping, is on topl of all major review software. You can easily search for overwhelming reviews of soft ads, restaurant tours and food reviews.

To a certain extent, the publicity philosophy of the owner of this restaurant is somewhat similar to that of Yan Huaiyou.

I don’t care about anything else for the moment, let’s fill up the ads first and then talk about it.

Manager Xu had a lot of business there, so Qin Can had already arrived by the time Jiang Qi and others took a taxi to the entrance of Babao Zhai. It was meal time, and Jiang Qi could smell the aroma of the food inside while standing at the door.

As a well-known old restaurant with mixed reviews but full of advertisements, Babao Zhai's business is also good. After Jiang Qi followed the waiter in, he looked around and found that the first floor was almost full, with only a few reservation signs.

The tables were empty, and one of them was reserved by Yan Huaiyou.

Everyone is an outsider. Although Qin Can went to college in Peking, because of his major and wallet, he didn’t eat at any of the five most famous restaurants in Peking: Babao Zhai, Tongdeju, Ruyifang, Shunhelou and Yongheju.

Yes, if I insist on making a relationship, I go to the self-service barbecue restaurant opposite Yongheju.

Jiang Qi has never been to Peking at all. Manager Xu has been but his wallet doesn’t allow it. Yan Huaiyou’s wallet allows him to eat in five restaurants, even the legendary Fenyuan, the first private restaurant in Peiping, but that’s all

Things happened when he was in elementary school and junior high school - at that time, Fenyuan was not as expensive as it is now.

On the waiter's recommendation, Yan Huaiyou ordered roast duck, tomato sauce prawns, sweet and sour pork ribs, oyster sauce lettuce and seasonal vegetable scallop soup.

The duck chosen for the roast duck was a little on the fatter side, but the skills of the roast duck master and the skill of the duck slicer were very good, so it was somewhat saved. After returning to school during the National Day, I returned to the level of a weight-loss meal with a wowotou in my hand and not a drop of oil in the dish.

Qin Can wished he could eat a duck in one bite, but considering that he still wanted this life, Qin Can could only endure the pain and only take two bites.

In Jiang Qi's opinion, the prawns in tomato sauce taste pretty good. He is not a food connoisseur and does not have high requirements for the taste of food. It is sweet and sour, and wrapped in a nice tomato-colored sauce. Everyone basically likes the prawns in tomato sauce.

After one mouthful, the plate of prawns with tomato sauce was soon empty.

If I had to find any fault, it would be that the sauce was a bit too thick, so thick that Jiang Qi could hardly taste the shrimp flavor.

The same goes for the sweet and sour pork ribs, which are delicious but the sauce tastes a bit strong.

The oyster sauce lettuce and seasonal vegetable scallop soup were also good. In the end, after finishing the meal, all the dishes on the table were swept away by the four people. Qin Can, who came out to improve the food, ate it as if he had just finished a work meal.

"The food at Babao Zhai is quite delicious." Qin Can looked at the reviews on his mobile phone and said with some confusion, "Why are there so many bad reviews in the reviews, and some people accuse this restaurant of buying its ratings and good reviews.

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Yan Huaiyou silently showed Qin Can the bill.

The four-digit bill shocked Qin Can.

"Holy shit." Qin Can couldn't help but cursed, "It's so expensive."

Qin Can looked at the soup on the empty plate on the table and suddenly felt that today's meal was not that delicious.

Jiang Qi's first reaction after seeing the bill was, Damn, opening a restaurant is really profitable.

It's strange why his first reaction was this.

After dinner, Qin Can had to take the subway back to school. The door of her dormitory building was locked at 10 o'clock every night, and after that time, she had to climb over the wall to get in.

Although it is easy for dancers to climb over the wall, Qin Can adheres to the concept of never climbing over the wall if he can go through the main entrance. After confirming the exhibition hotel with Jiang Qi, Qin Can went back.

The 17th is a Friday. Qin Can has classes in the afternoon but doesn’t have to practice dance in the evening. She can come to the exhibition on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday to help Jiang Qi find cheap and suitable boxed books.

"Do you really not need Store Manager Xu to help you grab a public parking space? There are many major publishers launching new books at this year's autumn fair. If you don't grab a public parking space, you won't have the right of first refusal. I'm afraid it will be difficult to grab good copies from other stores.

." Yan Huaiyou confirmed with Jiang Qi for the last time after returning.

He really hoped that Jiang Qi could find some good books at this autumn exhibition and go back.

Although the two stores are close to each other, there is no competitive relationship. On the contrary, Galaxy Script Store, a magical script store that has its own traffic and has developed many cute new customers, has brought many customers to C.C.

"No need." Jiang Qi shook his head, "I had no intention of buying a city-limited or exclusive purchase. To be honest, the area of ​​our store is a bit small. The first floor is basically useless, and there are only 5 rooms on the second floor that can be opened.

One of them was even made into a real scene.'

"If I buy a city limit and go back exclusively, I will have to change the rooms and put props in them. Not only will the rooms not be enough, but the utility room may not be enough.'

Yan Huaiyou heard something else from Jiang Qi's words: "Do you want to change the store?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Jiang Qi shook his head, "If there is a suitable store in the alley, I might rent it and open a second store."

Jiang Qi would like to change the store, but the Horror Doll House is still barely close to two stars. Jiang Qi estimates that it should be upgraded to two stars in the next few days.

It will be several times more difficult to upgrade from two stars to three stars. Don’t even think about changing stores in a short time. The building card cannot be moved unless it is upgraded to 3 stars. But now there is a real problem of insufficient rooms in the store, so Jiang Qi has been thinking about it.

Then rent a larger two-story shop in the alley, open a few big ones, and open a second store.

Unfortunately, there are currently few shops in the alley that meet Jiang Qi's standards. Jiang Qi has asked the proprietress of the fruit shop and Sister Hu to keep an eye out for him and notify him as soon as possible if there is a suitable shop.

October 17th, sunny, the first day of the exhibition.

Jiang Qi woke up late and slept until ten o'clock in the morning. He went out to have some brunch and lunch. By the time Jiang Qi entered the exhibition hotel, it was already noon.

The lobby on the first floor has been greatly changed.

If yesterday the lobby on the first floor was simply filled with posters, promotional pictures and other advertisements, today there are already many stalls in the lobby on the first floor.

It's really a stall.

Jiang Qi thought for a moment that he had arrived at a flea market held in elementary school.

Everyone who bought tickets for the exhibition can receive a small gift bag with the ticket code. Jiang Qi received one and found that it contained a complete distribution list, a small badge for the autumn exhibition, several advertisements for popular books and a package

Napkins with the Autumn Exhibition logo printed on them.

There is a map on the booklet, and Jiang Qi learned from the map that there are several banquet halls on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the hotel. There are also many small publishing booths in the banquet hall to promote and sell books.

This year’s Autumn Exhibition has hundreds of publishers, countless new authors, thousands of stores and countless ordinary players participating in the exhibition. The public parking spaces of large publishing companies cannot be grabbed, and the public parking spaces of small publishing companies are not available.

Yesterday, Jiang Qi grabbed a bus space in the "Horror. Doll House" store on the mini program this afternoon. As a result, there were not enough people. Only 3 of the 6 people were interested.

Jiang Qi's WeChat account was added to the release of this book, telling him that he would be notified on WeChat as soon as everyone gathered together. At the same time, he sent a long list of comments about how good this book was. I am very grateful to Jiang Qi for being interested in this book. I hope

He can help spread the word.

It can be said that the attitude is very good.

Jiang Qi wandered between stalls like an ordinary player.

There are many ordinary players like him. A normal store owner usually races against time to get on the bus on the first day, ob, and choose the book. There is no time to fool around. At this time, the people who set up a stall and promote it all can't get together.

It is a small publishing company that sells its own books. No one is interested in playing them, so it naturally has to come out to promote them.

It costs a lot for a store to run an exhibition, and the distribution cost is even higher. If it can't sell, it will be a loss.

Jiang Qi bought a cup of milk tea and wandered around looking at the posters of various books. He was not interested in playing with the books. He mainly wanted to see if there were any ready-made boxed ones with good posters.

"This book about the Psychic Ghost School seems quite interesting." The three girls in front of Jiang Qi were attracted by the dark and spooky posters in front of them. At a glance, the three of them knew that they were college students who had no classes and came to join in the fun.

The publisher of "Psychic School I" was a chestnut-haired girl. Seeing that some people were interested in this poster, she smiled and said: "Three ladies want to experience the new book released by our studio? This is a series of books, but

It doesn't matter if you haven't played the first two books. If the three ladies want to play, they can do it now. There are already three of us here, room 908.'

"The three young ladies only need to write us a short review of a few words after the experience. It would be even better if they could send it to WeChat Moments to help us promote it."

The three female college students were really excited after hearing this. One of the girls with short hair asked: "How long will this take?"

"4~5 hours."

The three female college students agreed. The chestnut-haired girl stood up and was about to lead them to room 908. Jiang Qi, who had been studying the hotel's brochure beside him, spoke up,

"Excuse me, can I go up with you and watch from the side?'

The girl with chestnut hair said happily: "Of course."

Jiang Qi grabbed a leaflet and took the elevator upstairs with them.

Room 908 is an ordinary single room with a very small space. Players can only sit on the bed, carpet or chair to read books. The onlookers, such as Jiang Qi, can theoretically only stand and not even have a chair.

But since he was the only passer-by who came to watch, the two publishers and an author of this studio paid great attention to him and specially bought him a chair so that he could sit and watch.

The person who opened the book was a girl with chestnut hair, and the three people in this studio were all girls. A group of people gathered around the bed, using the bed as a table, and started playing with the A4 paper piled up with clips.

Jiang Qi watched like this for more than two hours.

One thing to say, this book is quite average. It is a very clichéd story about a ghost killing people caused by school bullying. If it is made into a horror movie, it would probably be rated at most 5 points. I would not call it a bad book, but it is not a good book either.

At best, it’s an ordinary horror book with a decent name.

Horror depends on the atmosphere. In such a small room, in addition to closing the curtains, turning off the lights, and adjusting the light to create a scary atmosphere, it is difficult to create an effect with sound when there are people watching, not to mention that there is no way to perform in such a large space.

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The six people in the room haven't finished playing yet, but Jiang Qi has already guessed the general outline of the story, and through the A4 paper in the hand of one of the players, he roughly understands the author's writing style and descriptive techniques.

Jiang Qi felt that he understood it almost, so he stood up and prepared to call the other distributor in the room to discuss the price.

Just as he stood up, another editor also noticed, thinking that he wanted to leave, and took the initiative to follow him out. Before Jiang Qi could say anything, the girl spoke first: "What do you think of our book?"

"It's not bad." Jiang Qi said.

"Then little brother, can you help us promote it by sending it to WeChat Moments? I'll add you on WeChat and send you the poster picture." The publisher said enthusiastically.

"Do I have to post on Moments?" Jiang Qi was a little embarrassed. He has never posted on Moments for ten thousand years.

I was a little disappointed with the release, but I couldn’t force the ordinary people who came to the exhibition to join in the fun and help with publicity. I smiled reluctantly and wanted to persuade him again, so I listened to Jiang Qi’s continued words.

"Can't you buy it directly? Your "Psychic School II" may not be in stock. Are the first two in stock?" Issue:?

From the beginning, what attracted Jiang Qi was not the poster of this book, but the flyer on the book stall.
To be continued...