"Now here is the news from yesterday. On a deserted and vast black beach in southern my country, a dreamy blessing ceremony was held yesterday. Thousands of red Kongming lanterns from the east were lifted into the sky in the darkness. Fantasy novel The ordinary scene aroused cheers from countless people present."

"Please see, this is a video recorded by one of the people who participated in the event yesterday. When the six o'clock bell struck, star-like oriental lanterns flew high into the sky and rushed to the sea..."

This is Icelandic news broadcast on both big and small things, but yesterday’s scene was indeed a big deal in Iceland.

#oriental lantern rising again on the black sand beach#

This is one of the hot search terms.

Currently, only a few media outlets on Icelandic websites are reporting on the Christmas lighting ceremony last night. More people are paying attention to the Oriental lanterns. For them, this novel prayer ceremony is far more important than the traditional lighting ceremony.

Interesting.

Scroll down the page and you will find dozens of hot searches, almost all of which are related to what happened yesterday, with Kongming Lantern accounting for the majority.

There are even those who reveal information about Chen Xing.

"Who was the first Asian to put up sky lanterns on the black beach?"

"Chen Xing, Chinese, photographer, this is his Wikipedia, click on it to see for yourself."

"It's really amazing. I've seen him a lot recently by Lake Toning. I only thought he was handsomer than average Asians before, but I didn't expect him to be so talented."

"I've also seen that Asian guy taking pictures everywhere with a camera, right?"

Chen Xing couldn't sit still in the hotel, so he often ran around Reykjavik with his camera. When he had enough photos, he would sit on a bench by Lake Tonin, read a book, and feed the ducks, so he often went out.

Local people have seen him.

In this way, he became famous in Iceland very simply.

The Kongming Lanterns had just been released before, and everyone was just interested in this act. Before the Kongming Lantern ceremony started yesterday, no one thought how many people would go, but who would have thought that most of the young people in the city and surrounding towns would come?

As soon as the incident happened, Chen Xing, the instigator, was immediately dug out.

Now even the girl at the front desk of the hotel knows that Chen Xing is a great photographer. Every time she sees Chen Xing entering and leaving the hotel, her eyes are filled with stars.

Chen Xing complained about this incident to Sister Jiaqian on WeChat, saying: "I will leave the day after tomorrow in the afternoon so that I can catch up with the New Year's Day when I return to China."

New Year's Day is not a particularly important holiday. The biggest memory for Chinese people is that they can take three days off on New Year's Day. Even many office workers feel that it is better not to take a holiday at all, which makes it quite troublesome to adjust the holidays.

But for Chen Xing, New Year's Day is the day when his first book is released.

He really wanted to see this book appear in a bookstore.

Chen Jiaqian knew that Chen Xing had spent Christmas in Iceland and was going back to China, but she still felt a little uncomfortable when she suddenly heard the news.

It's like an old friend who has known each other for a long time. We often eat, drink, and talk about literature and movies together. But suddenly one day this friend will leave for a distant place, and no one knows when we will meet again.

This feeling made her feel like a girl's heart was being pinched by hands.

"Aren't you going to stay a few more days?"

"You forgot, my book will be released on New Year's Day. This is the first book I have published. I want to go back and read it."

"Oh, yes." She sighed in her heart.

The next day, she originally wanted to have another meal with Chen Xing in a hot pot restaurant, but they changed their minds and went to the beach carrying a large bag of snacks and Western-style fast food bought on the street.

Reykjavik is by the sea. It takes about half an hour to walk from the city to the seaside. The lighthouse in the distance is still bright, shining in four colors in the dark night.

Chen Xing took a sip of beer and said with some emotion: "I came here and saw the lighthouse on the first day I came to Iceland. I didn't expect to arrive here before I left. I didn't expect that it looked even better in the darkness than last time.

Beautiful."

"There is a beginning and an end, haha." Chen Jiaqian also drank beer, and the two of them touched the bottles.

"Iceland is really a good place." Chen Xing said, "There are not so many things to worry about between people. The population is small, the country is wealthy, and the work system is easy. No wonder you choose to live here for a long time."

Chen Jiaqian asked: "Are you coming then? You are fluent in foreign languages, and now you can also speak Icelandic. I can help you ask if you can enter the consulate."

"Forget it."

Chen Xing refused.

Iceland is too small to accommodate Chen Xing's heart, at least not when he was young. Indeed, Iceland's welfare is very good, but Chen Xing is not at the bottom of society now, and there is no need for him to go to 007. Besides,

I still have so many friends in China.

Today, no aurora was seen at the beach.

Another day later, the 11 a.m. flight arrived in Istanbul first, and then there was a direct flight from Istanbul to Tianfu Airport.

Istanbul is not a bad place, and its reputation may not be very eye-catching now, but when it comes to its former name, Constantinople, it is estimated that many people are familiar with it. Many Chinese people know the name Constantinople.<

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The legendary blue Türkiye.

Chen Xing saw this city when he was about to land at the airport. It was very beautiful.

If you have time next year, you can come here and take a look.

Compared with France and Northern Europe, the city of Istanbul has a completely different style.

After some time, Chen Xing arrived at Tianfu Airport on the evening of December 29.

It was night when he landed, and he was a little regretful that he didn't see the daytime in China for the first time. He had seen the darkness that lasted for a month in Iceland. This kind of depression made him want to walk on the street during the day, even if he had nothing to do.

, it’s also good to take pictures.

It was daytime when he landed in Istanbul, but he didn't have the chance to leave the airport at that time.

Hot pot... I won’t eat it today.

If you still eat it after a month, you must love hot pot so much.

When I got home, there was no dust in the room after such a long time. After all, it was a newly renovated house and there was no food in the room, so there were no spider webs or cockroaches.

There is an additional benefit to staying in Northern Europe, that is, you won’t see any bugs.

Unlike in southern China, the bugs are several times larger than those in the north.

The publishing house that Chen Xing found before was from Rongcheng. The next day after returning to China, Chen Xing arrived at Southwest Tourism Publishing House.

There are two reasons for him to return to China. First, he is also popular in Iceland. Many people look at him when he goes out. So just like Chen Xing who became popular at home and went to France to hide, he returned to China this time. Chapter 2

The second is that I want to see my book published.

So he came over immediately.

The editor in charge of publishing Chen Xing's travel notes is named Wang Juncai. After receiving the news, he was waiting at the front desk downstairs.

When Chen Xing arrived, he was still chatting with the girl at the front desk.

As you can tell from the name, Southwest Tourism Publishing House is a special publishing house that publishes travel matters. It doesn’t have as many things as a comprehensive publishing house, so the editor has more rest time. If it weren’t for Chen Xing’s book the day after tomorrow,

Publishing, Wang Juncai may be more leisurely.

"Brother Wang." Chen Xing shouted after seeing it.

"Oh, you're here, come on, come on, I'll take you to read your book first."

Wang Juncai was also very happy to see Chen Xing. This was one of his most promising authors. No matter how famous the author was in the photography industry, the quality of his travel notes surpassed those of many travel writers who had become a monk.
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He wants to take Chen Xing to the warehouse to look at the printed books.

"Okay." This is what Chen Xing came for in the first place.

It’s not possible to read books in bookstores. Although they have been shipped, the bookstore will only put Chen Xing’s books out on New Year’s Day.

The warehouse was not in this building. Wang Juncai took Chen Xing to the parking lot to drive and casually chatted:

"It's easier to promote your book in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan. Many large bookstores say they can give you the best seats for a week. The bosses in the north are not so easy to talk to, but the new books are also of high quality, so overall they are very good."
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Chen Xing is not an unknown person. He became popular once before because of his travels, and almost became the first hot search. Later, he won an award and became popular again.

Therefore, it is very easy to get good resources in the provinces with the strongest tourism publishing houses in the southwest, but not in the north. After all, Chen Xinghuo is only popular in the tourism and photography circles, while other ordinary people go to work every day to make money.

I’m tired enough. After work, I mostly watch live broadcasts and Douyin to entertain myself.

Who cares about any photographer?

"That's enough. I didn't imagine that the book would be sold out as soon as it was published. It's already good to have completed this book and you are willing to publish it."

Wang Juncai was not very satisfied with Chen Xing's mentality and said:

"Chen Xing, you can't think like that. You are an author that we have snatched from many publishing houses. You have to have confidence in yourself. To be honest, if you agree to hold a book signing, then first

Today’s sales can definitely rank among the top five sales in 2024.”

His book will be released on January 1st. By then, even in 2024, the sales volume of the book will naturally be cleared and recalculated.

When Chen Xing's book is on the book sales list because of the signing, it will definitely be an advertisement with a publicity cost of more than 10 million.

"Forget about the autograph session, I'm afraid of being tired."

From signing at 9 a.m. to closing the mall at 10 p.m., my God, this is going to kill Chen Xing.

Wang Juncai still talks about the benefits of the autograph session. Anyway, Chen Xing won’t hold a autograph session on New Year’s Day, so there will be opportunities in the future. Chen Xing’s salty mentality must be dealt with, otherwise Chen Xing won’t even have a autograph session.
To be continued...