Lin Dong and the others would not have thought that there was no need to go to WeChat to express their opinions. Everything they said now had been heard by the fifth-grade vegetative person.

Zhang Zhong also seriously considered their opinions in his heart. Speaking of which, he had indeed written several short stories, plus the song "Mountain Folk" and two fairy tales. Together, with the pictures above, he could barely produce a novel.

This is a book.

However, this is a bit of a waste of time. Iron fans may pay for it, but ordinary readers may not go to bookstores to buy it.

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

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

Zhang Junwei looked at Zhang Zhong longingly, "Teacher Zhang, you heard what they just said, do you think?"

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

Since the last separation in Jiaohu, the two of them have had relatively little contact. During the Chinese New Year, Tong Can made a New Year's call to Zhang Zhong and also talked about the development of the game.

He spoke in general terms, but the situation is still very optimistic. Although their games came out slowly and did not seize the opportunity, the subsequent development was smoother because they borrowed Zhang Zhong's name.

Zhang Junwei heard Zhang Zhong's question and said with a smile, "Tong Can has been very busy recently. Didn't he set up a club in Jiaohu? He runs there when he has something to do. There are very few people coming to the book club."

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

"Hey, why should I bother? Tong Can pays for all the expenses. If I provide a place, it can also increase the popularity of my small shop."

Zhang Zhong smiled and said, "Okay, I'll leave first."

"Well, please walk slowly."

…

Zhang Chong returned to Meng Mu's small building, Peng Peng was painting seriously, Xu Yuhan saw Zhang Chong coming back and walked up to him.

"Teacher Zhang, I have something to tell you. When I was cleaning up the studio, I found that Pengpeng had stored a lot of paintings here. They were all placed in small compartments. My cubicle was almost full.

No more."

Zhang Dian nodded, "Okay, I understand, 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 painted so many paintings, and they are all piled up in the dark in the compartment."

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

Since you want to hang paintings, you don’t have to hang them at home. If you can get a studio for Peng Peng and hang all the paintings she painted in it, then whenever you walk into the studio in the future, all you will see are Peng Peng’s paintings.

Quite interesting.

If Pengpeng really takes up 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 follow the trajectory of time and appreciate Pengpeng's paintings over the years, just like sitting in a time machine.

…

After returning home, Zhang Zhong began to do two things.

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

Zhang Zhong picked out all the poems such as "In Front of the Door" that he had written in his study before, and then put them together with the short stories he posted online and made a list, planning to discuss it with the publisher in a few days.

publishing.

As for the gallery affairs, the progress was somewhat beyond Zhang Zhong's expectations. After searching online for a long time, he discovered that there was a shop for rent in Jiangyang. This shop had previously been a gallery owned by someone else, but it was later abandoned for unknown reasons.

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 lease.

Because it was originally a gallery, there was no need to bother with renovations. Zhang Zhong went directly to Meng Mu's small house and moved all of Peng Peng's paintings to this gallery.

The gallery is very large, and Peng Peng's paintings hanging in it still look a bit empty, but Zhang Zhong believes that it won't be long before these walls will be filled with Peng Peng's words.

By the time he had done both of these things, it was already the end of February.

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

Although it has been recommended by Zhuang Yu before, "Honey Wives" is much less popular than "Murder on the Orient Express".

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

"Murder on the Orient Express" was released one day in advance, but when Zhang Zhong went to the bookstore the next day, the bookshelf was still full of "Murder on the Orient Express", and the new book "Wives and Concubines" that had just been released that day was...

Squeezed into a corner.

Even the poster for "Honey Wives" is behind "Murder on the Orient Express".

Zhang Zhong had already predicted it, and he never thought about letting these two books compete in the competition.

And facts have proved that the audience overlap of the two books is not very high. Even though "Murder on the Orient Express" was strongly launched, "Honey and Concubines" still achieved a good result of 250,000 copies on the first day.

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

Of course Harvest Literature was happy. You know, their original plan was to print 100,000 copies, but later it was changed to 500,000 copies.

But even so, the first printing of 500,000 copies seemed 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 a shortage.

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

Bouquet for Algernon.

The reason why the media rushed to report on "Flowers for Algernon" is because in less than a month, the overseas sales of this book reached 6 million copies, which is an extremely astonishing number.

Of the six million copies sold, two million were pre-orders, because the printing factory contacted by Agitated Literature simply could not keep up with the sales speed.

This was the result of later contacting other printing companies for cooperation. Otherwise, the pre-order sales would not have been two million, but perhaps four million.

For this reason, "Southern Weekly" devoted a whole page to reporting this news, and their title was very exaggerated.
Chapter completed!