Chapter 286 I Miss My Grandpa
Lu Kai and Ma Xiaoling came to Xingkeng Town. This is the initial station of the plane train. There are two trains a day, at 10 am and 4 pm. When the two arrived, it was already evening, and the train had already departed. station times.
So Lu Kai and the two went to find a hotel for accommodation. I found a tavern on the lower floor and a hotel on the upper floor.
Stay one night in a standard room 1800 Yuejing.
Many travelers and adventurers gathered in the lower tavern, drinking and chatting.
The Falling Star Festival is also held in full swing in Xingkeng Town, attracting many tourists from the nearby areas.
It is said that there will be a large meteor shower at night. In the meteor shower, there will be lucky people who get the stars and become the chosen ones.
The chosen will gain the "star power", a force capable of altering gravity.
When Lu Kai heard these people talking, he remembered the hook-nosed brother he met in Lava City. This hook-nosed brother's extraordinary strength is based on gravity. How can it be so similar to these people's "power of the starry sky"?
"The so-called power of the starry sky is just a way of psychic power!" An immortal uncle wearing a white coat in the tavern shouted, "Just find the trick! You can crack it!"
There are 2 people at the same table with this uncle, a fat man and a short man. There is nothing to say about the fat man, he is a fat man, the flesh of his stomach and arms are piled up into tire circles; the short man has a long beard, thick eyebrows, a big nose, thick arms, and calluses on the hands that hold the wine glass. The wrapped shape on the back of the dwarf is a hammer, well, a dwarf.
The uncle in white continued to shout: "This is not a gift from God, it can be learned and mastered!"
Fatty: "You drink too much, say less!"
The dwarf picked up the wine glass and clinked with the uncle in white: "Done!"
The uncle in white drank the wine glass and shouted: "Me! I want to crack the power of the starry sky! Everyone - listen to me!!"
The people in the tavern were attracted by the shouting of the uncle in white, and they all looked over.
Uncle in white: "After the crack! I want to publish a book! One book only sells 666 Yuejing! Then the first edition will print 100,000 copies!"
The drinkers in the tavern didn't take this uncle seriously. When they heard that the uncle wrote and sold books, they even took it seriously and continued to drink their own wine. And Ma Xiaoling was furious when she heard the price of selling books!
Ma Xiaoling walked straight to the uncle in white and roared: "No! You set a price of 666 Yuejing for a book that teaches psionic skills!? What are you trying to do!? You are disrupting the market! You are destroying the book Market! Don't order this price!"
Fatty: "..."
dwarf:"……"
Uncle in white: "..."
Ma Xiaoling: "The price of the book must be approved by the Publishing Administration! You can't set the price without permission!"
Uncle in white: "Who the hell are you! It's none of your business how the books I write will be priced!"
Ma Xiaoling: "No! A book is going to be published,
It must be reviewed by the temple, especially the books on psionic skills. Some skills cannot be spread casually! If it is spread casually, the learners get out of control and become pollution, which is the responsibility of the author! "
Uncle in white: "I do my own research and write my own book. After writing the book, I have to give it to the temple for review, and I have to get approval for the price and sale!?"
Ma Xiaoling: "Yes! The author of a book can get 10% of the profit of the book, which is the money after deducting various miscellaneous expenses such as production, publicity, distribution, loss, and channel fees!"
The uncle in white was a little stunned and asked, "How much is that?"
Ma Xiaoling: "The production is based on the process, introducing anti-theft measures and binding chips, which accounts for at least 30%, 15% for promotion and distribution, and 15% for loss and channel fees. In total, it is 60% of the book price. , after deducting 40% of the 60%, the author can get 10%! That is 4%!"
The uncle in white shouted: "Four o'clock!? Then I'm not a beggar?"
Ma Xiaoling: "This is a genuine book! That's it for regular channels! Don't write it if you're upset!"
The uncle in white was furious, and his psychic energy was stirred up. This psychic energy brought out an aura. It might be because he drank too much, the fog was steaming, and the whole tavern exuded a smell of wine.
Seeing that the momentum was not good, Lu Kai hurriedly pulled Ma Xiaoling back: "Sister Ma! What are you doing!?"
Ma Xiaoling said angrily, "This guy Xia Jier's price! Really want to set a price for one book according to his 666 Yuejing price, we open a bookstore and sell one book at a loss!"
Lu Kai: "Then you don't sell it! What are you talking about with him?"
Ma Xiaoling said to Lu Kai with an expression of hating iron and steel, "It's not that you won't sell books if you don't sell them. Books are sold in bundles. The publishing management of the temple is in charge of booksellers big and small. To make a best-seller, you have to match it with junk books, otherwise the bookseller will not supply you with it.”
Lu Kai: "..."
Ma Xiaoling: "And there are after-sales problems for the books of psionic skills. After customers buy the books, they go home to practice. If there is a problem in practice, they will go to the temple or the bookseller, and they will find us to open a bookstore!"
Ma Xiaoling shouted: "It's this kind of book writer, who can't make money and deliberately doesn't follow the guide price, set the price low, so that our bookstores sell one book and lose one book. Thinking that he is spreading knowledge, It's just littering!"
Uncle in white: "Bastard! Whose book are you calling trash! I'm not trash! My book isn't trash! I...uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!"
The uncle in white was covering his mouth by the fat man in the same seat, and then he was tightly controlled by the fat man. The uncle in white kept struggling, but the fat man was very strong, and the struggle of the uncle in white gradually became weak, and finally his hands fell.
The dwarf stood up and said embarrassedly: "This guy is not good at drinking, don't take it to heart. If you don't drink, this guy looks like a dog. Once he drinks, he will forget who he is. He said he is a writer, But it's just talking, not a writer, but the meaning of sitting at home, sitting at home, hahaha."
"Humph!" Ma Xiaoling said impatiently: "If you ask him to write a book, just write it honestly, don't mess around! It's very taboo!"
The dwarf smiled: "Yes yes yes."
Then Ma Xiaoling went up the stairs angrily and went back to the room.
Lu Kai looked at the uncle in white and said, "You'd better give him artificial respiration. This guy is suffocated, and he will die if he covers it again."
The fat man hurriedly let go of his hand, only to see the uncle in white with a pale face and rolled his eyes.
The fat man and the dwarf jumped for a while.
The dwarf picked up the wine glass, sucked the ale in the glass into his mouth, and then sprayed it all over the face of the white-clothed uncle.
The uncle in white suddenly shuddered and woke up!
The fat man hugged the uncle in white and burst into tears: "Wow ah ah! You are alive! I almost never see you again! Woah ah ah!"
Seeing that the uncle was fine, Lu Kai also went upstairs and returned to the room.
The standard room is a room with two beds. Ma Xiaoling sat on the bed in a daze.
Lu Kai asked, "What's wrong?"
Ma Xiaoling raised her head with tears in her eyes: "I miss my grandpa..."