Chapter 28

September 11th

"Xiao Huo, breakfast is ready!"

Meng Huo was brushing his teeth in the bathroom when a cry came from the living room.

While brushing his teeth, he rubbed his eyelids against the mirror. He didn't know if it was an illusion. He felt as if he had dark circles under his eyes.

After washing, Meng Huo returned to the living room with worry.

"Mom, do I have dark circles under my eyes?"

Li Qin was stunned and looked at his face carefully: "no, you're wrong."

Meng Huo sat down to eat breakfast. He didn't want to have dark circles under his eyes when he was young.

"Xiaohuo." After pouring a glass of milk to Meng Huo, Li Qin asked, "today is the day for the sale of comic books. Do you want to buy one?"

"No On the dining table was a bowl of noodles. Meng Huo picked up noodles with chopsticks: "the editorial department will send several copies. We don't have to buy them ourselves."

He happily began to eat noodles and sell the pamphlet. Even if he really published his own comic books, Phoenix company would specially prepare some for him. Meng Huo sent a message last night saying that he would send Shen Jie one.

The girl Xueba was very happy to reply: "it's just that I have no money. I'll pay you back next time."

But every time Meng Huo published a single edition, he would have several. How could Shen Jie send them?

"So Alice will come in the morning?"

Sitting beside Meng Huo eating noodles, Li Qin thought of her younger sister: "she's always busy with your comics recently. She should be quiet after this sale."

Alice and Meng Huo are very busy these days. Li Qin is very worried.

She suddenly thought: "Xiaohuo, how much do you think the book can sell and make?"

"Well, in terms of the whole country, one million copies should be sold, right?"

Meng Huo didn't want to scare Li Qin. He used his words cautiously: "my royalties are very high, but I have to deduct taxes. It's estimated that I can get more than two million yuan!"

The biggest preferential treatment given to Meng by Phoenix company is the 10% royalty. There is nothing wrong with his calculation method. However, there are many loopholes in the quantity. China has a vast territory and abundant resources. The first print of Detective Conan is more than one million copies, and the final sales volume will certainly be more.

However, Li Qin was still frightened.

"Two million, two million..." she could hardly catch chopsticks. What's the concept of two million? This money is enough for their mother and son to buy a house in Ninghai City, and it's a one-time payment!

Buy a house, they are completely Ninghai people, said out, it is estimated that Li Qin's brothers and sisters will faint.

"Xiao Huo, don't spend money recklessly!"

Li Qin suddenly thought of a word, the man is rich to become bad, she can't rest assured: "after you want to use what money, must tell mother!"

Meng Huo looked at her and laughed.

"Well, Ma, don't worry."

He doesn't gamble, doesn't Piao, doesn't have any hobbies, and doesn't do anything to make Li Qin sad.

In the morning, Alice came over with some books, along with the delivery man.

"You bought a treadmill?"

Alice looked at the delivery man who carefully carried the treadmill into the house and was surprised: "how much is it?"

"Six thousand, for home use." Meng Huo takes Alice into the study and asks Li Qin to help adjust the treadmill outside: "have you brought the booklet?"

Alice took out the booklet of Detective Conan from her satchel. As soon as it appeared, Meng Huo's eyes lit up. The cover of the booklet, like the subway poster, was the picture of the hero and heroine together.

"You're really good at business."

Meng Huo is very satisfied. It turns out that the poster is still used for this purpose. I don't know if ye Xiong has planned it for a long time.

"It's more than that!"

Alice laughed. She turned to the last page and said, "what do you think this is?"

"This is..."

Meng Huo was surprised again. He saw a beautiful maple leaf bookmark, but the picture above was Kidd.

"We bookmarked your three pictures and randomly put them on the last page of each book. That's why we put them on sale today." Alice took out different bookmarks from other books, each of which was very delicate: "unfortunately, the bookmarks are too small to show the artistic conception of pictures."

That's right, but Alice is still a little proud. These bookmarks are very good and will surely surprise readers.

Meng Huo was full of praise for bookmarks, and the quality of the book was also good. The publishing house didn't cut corners. 30 yuan was a good deal."Yes, Meng Huo."

Alice hesitated for a moment and said, "Sherlock has a high sales volume. She only sold 700000 copies in Ninghai yesterday. The editor in chief hopes you won't be discouraged."

"Ninghai 700000 copies?" Meng Huo was stunned, then shook his head and said, "it seems that I underestimated the market. The first 1.5 million copies of Detective Conan are printed. I think you should print them immediately."

Alice was stunned.

"Do you think Detective Conan will surpass detective Shylock?" She swallowed: "is that what you think?"

Meng Huo gave a faint smile.

"I used to take the novel of Sherlock as my opponent..."

If Mach can depict the novel incisively and vividly, Meng Huo may not have the confidence to win, but he was disappointed when he read the comic book.

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The front of Qingyuan bookstore is still full of people. Yesterday's sales champion "detective Shylock" is still in front, and next to it is "Detective Conan", which is just on sale today.

"Sir, are you going to buy this?"

An old man with a crutch came slowly. The book seller's eyes lit up and saw that the customer's age was obviously a fan of Sherlock. She quickly picked up the book and handed it to him.

"I don't want this one..." however, surprisingly, the old man reached out and pushed away detective Shylock, turned to detective Conan and said, "that's it. I've seen this picture on the subway and bus. How much is the book?"

The bookseller was stunned.

He Qian is reading during her break time. Her mobile phone suddenly beeps. She takes out a look. It's a short message.

"Miss Hexi, I'm miss mach. What time do you get off work today?"

The content of the text message made her frown slightly. Yesterday's dead man turned out to be mach, but who leaked her mobile phone number?

She thought about it and then replied.

"Half past six."

It's five o'clock after work. He Qian coldly covers her mobile phone and continues to open Detective Conan.

"That idiot, who painted Sherlock like that, really thinks he's amazing!"

As a representative of the orthodox inferential novel, Sherlock's charm is the suspense and tension throughout the whole story. However, Mach's painting is too clear, which attracts the readers' eyes to the appearance of the characters. It is not the atmosphere of the original novel at all.

Most people don't know, but He Xi sighs in her heart, and draws the cold story into a girl's cartoon. Isn't it that she died in front of the young cartoon master He Xi... What's wrong