Maijo Kyousuke returned to his room with the food for two he bought at the Chome no Yu restaurant.
I plan to have dinner with Jiang Liumeili and talk about future plans.
As a result, through the crack in the door, she discovered that Jiang Liumei was rummaging around in her room furtively.
If Maijo Kyousuke hadn't known Eryumei, other people in the city would have thought she was a thief stealing something when they saw this scene.
Maijo Kyousuke had no idea what Erumi wanted to look for in her room.
Could it be the black stockings she left here last time?
I’m not a strange person, so I’ve thrown away that kind of thing a long time ago? !
Although Maijo Kyousuke thought so in his heart, he didn't want to mention it.
Because if Jiang Liumei had forgotten this matter a long time ago and brought it up now, it would definitely make the two of them embarrassed.
Therefore, Maijo Kyousuke could only stand at the door, intending to see what Eryumi wanted to find in his room.
"Where was it hidden?"
"Two days ago, when I came to pick up Mr. Mashiro to participate in the Edogawa Ranpo Climbing Festival, I clearly saw Mr. Mashiro writing something furiously in the room."
"Logically speaking, Teacher Wucheng at that time didn't know the existence of Top Hat magazine."
"So the book I wrote at that time would definitely not be the "Conclusion" I have in hand."
"It must be the one I talked about on the Edogawa Rampage Dragon Watch podium, right?"
"It has been written to the end, a mystery novel that no one has ever seen, no one has heard of, and no one can write."
"I really want to see it!"
"Although it is very possible that Teacher Wucheng was lying at that time and did not write to the end of the story, but according to Teacher Wucheng's writing speed, there can't be no trace at all, right?"
Maijo Kyousuke heard Eryumei's mumbling in the room, and finally understood what Eryumei was looking for in her room.
Thinking of this, Maijo Kyousuke showed a wry smile on his face.
He could only pretend that he had just come back and knocked on the door with his hand.
"Teacher Wucheng! You...you came back so quickly!"
When Jiang Liumei saw Maijo Kyousuke pushing open the door and walking in, she felt as if she had been caught as a thief. Her face turned red, and she showed a rare expression of panic and embarrassment.
When Maijo Kyousuke saw Eryumei's bewildered look, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare.
I could only walk to the bedside table, remove a wooden board from the wall, and take out a thick stack of manuscript paper from the narrow hole.
Jiang Liumei glanced at it and felt that the stack of manuscript paper had as many as three hundred pages!
If we look at the specification of 500 to 600 words per page of a long manuscript, this stack of manuscript paper must contain at least 150,000 words!
Judging from the length of most mystery novels, doesn’t this mean? Is this novel almost finished?
It turns out that Maijo Keisuke was not lying when he was walking around on the Dragon Award podium in Edogawa.
He is really writing that mystery novel that no one has read and no one can write!
"The End" is already so great, and it is said by Maijo Keisuke that no one has read it, and no one except him has written it. What kind of magnificent masterpiece should it be?
While Eryumi was thinking about it, she saw Maijo Kyousuke put his hand into the hole again and took out about two hundred pages of manuscript paper.
Then, holding nearly five hundred pages of manuscript paper, he walked towards Jiang Liumei.
"Miss Jiangliu, what you have been looking for just now should be this, right?"
Maijo Kyousuke placed more than 500 pieces of manuscript paper in front of Eryu's beautiful face, with a smile on his face.
This made Jiang Liumei feel angry and funny.
What makes me angry is that no wonder I have been busy for most of the day and couldn't find the manuscript of Maijo Keisuke.
After working on it for a long time, it turned out that Maijo Keisuke was so cautious. In order to prevent the manuscript from being lost, he actually hid the manuscript inside the wall!
The funny thing is myself. Obviously, the way I just rummaged around in Maijo Keisuke's room like a thief was all seen by Maijo Keisuke!
However, it was discovered that it was discovered.
Anyway, I was indeed looking for this unfinished novel.
After comforting herself, Jiang Liumeili locked her eyes on the thick stack of manuscript paper.
On it were clearly written with a writing brush "The summer of Gu Huo Niao" in five big characters.
Eryumi, who is the editor-in-chief of the magazine department, felt a little incredible when she saw Maijo Keisuke writing nearly 500 pages of manuscripts in only seven or eight days!
Although he clearly knew that Maijo Keisuke was a quick writer, but... being able to be so fast... Eryumi still found it a little hard to believe...
"Let's take a look? Although it's not finished yet, this book should give you a different reading experience."
"It just combines a lot of science about spirit, mind, brain, religion, and a very wonderful conspiracy."
"Like I said, this is a book that no other mystery writer could have written."
After hearing what Maijo Keisuke said, Eryumi wanted to open this magnificent book called "Summer of the Bird Bird" and have a sneak peek of more than 500 pages.
But just after opening the first page of the manuscript, Jiang Liu closed the manuscript beautifully but quickly:
"Forget it, I'm not the editor of the publishing department. This book should normally be in charge of Mr. Ushan."
"If I secretly read your manuscript before him, it would be rude anyway, and it would make me feel like I was hurting Mr. Uyama."
After Eryumei finished speaking, she reluctantly handed the manuscript back to Makiro Kyousuke.
Then he put his elbows on the table, held his chin with both hands, looked at Maijo Kyousuke and said with a smile:
"Since it's not convenient for me to watch, how about... Teacher Wucheng tell me about it in person?"
"Without giving away the details, I would like to hear Mr. Wucheng tell me how much of a story this work called "The Summer of Birds" tells, so that it can support such a huge story. Number of pages?”
Maijo Kyousuke saw Eryu's beautiful face full of expectations, and smiled on his face.
While taking out the food in the bamboo basket, she smiled and talked to Jiang Liumei about the outline of the story of "The Summer of the Bird":
"Simply put, this is an incredible event that happened in the real world."
"The second daughter of the Kuonji family who opened a maternity hospital, Kuonji Kyoko was pregnant for twenty months, but she was still unable to give birth."
"But the strange thing is that Jianzi's husband Mulang disappeared without a trace like smoke in a completely enclosed secret room a year and a half ago..."
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The afternoon at Kodansha was very busy. A large number of books printed with astrological signs of the zodiac were shipped from the printing plant to Kodansha.
Under the command of the head of the sales department, Yasunori Okoshiba, all sales department employees divided the 50,000 printed copies of "Astrology Killing Magic" into dozens of copies.
Everyone drives their cars to transport these books to designated bookstores and start selling them!
As for why go to all the trouble of using sales staff to ship books?
Instead of choosing the usual truck?
This is actually the sales strategy of Yasunori Okoshiba, the head of the sales department.
Because time is tight and the market for "Astrology Killing Magic" is not clear.
If books are transported by truck, no one knows when "Astrology Killing Magic" will be sold out. Whether this book is popular in the hearts of the people and whether it is in demand.
Because the difference between publishing a book and publishing a magazine is still very obvious.
Most magazines in Japan sell for around 300 yen to 500 yen.
It is almost equivalent to the extent that most people buy a copy when they are free on the way to work. Even if they don’t like reading it, they just throw it away without feeling distressed.
But publishing books is completely different from magazines. The price alone is around 2,000 to 5,000 yen. If they don’t really like the author or the book, most people won’t choose to buy it.
After all, in this day and age, two thousand yen is enough to have a nice meal at a tavern.
Therefore, Yasunori Okoshiba's idea is very simple. Choose the bookstore with the largest flow of people and let the sales department employees stand in the bookstore and watch the bookstore sales!
In the end, based on the time it took for "Astrological Killing Magic" to be sold out and the buyer's love for the book (whether they followed the trend, or they admired Maijo Keisuke after watching "A Platycodon Flower"), I chose to add it again. Print quantity!
If this version sells very well, it will be sold out quickly.
Then next time, not only will the original version be printed in large quantities.
We also need the design department and the publicity department to simultaneously produce a portable "Library Edition" and a "Collector's Edition" that is good for collection and sell them together!
