After Zhang Zhong contacted Wu Ziyun, the other party learned of Zhang Zhong's intention and expressed his welcome.
"I'm very happy, and you don't need to say anything about helping. This is not help at all. It is definitely an honor for CAMC to invite a great writer like you to visit our school for inspection."
Zhang Zhong was so embarrassed by what he said, "Dean Wu's words really make me ashamed."
"Haha, if I have time next time, let me also visit your junior high school. Then we will be even." Wu Ziyun said with a smile.
"Of course it's good. The door of Shizhong College is open to Dean Wu at any time."
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On September 30th, exactly one month after "The Three-Body Problem" was released, a piece of good news came.
Zhang Zhong's total global book sales reached 1.26 billion, surpassing the original number one Linde and becoming the author with the highest book sales in the world.
When the aba data website put up numerical comparisons before, they also made predictions. They originally expected Zhang Zhong to surpass Linde in just ten days, but they didn't expect that something unexpected happened in the middle, and the battle line was finally stretched, which took a full month.
time.
The accident was not on Zhang Zhong's side, but on Linde's side.
Perhaps in order to prevent Zhang Zhong from winning too easily, Linde's fans made a final counterattack. In the past month, Linde's total book sales increased by 100 million, reaching more than 1.24 billion.
But this counterattack is doomed to be in vain, because Zhang Zhong's growth rate is too fast.
Someone has calculated that in September, Zhang Zhong sold an average of nine million books every day. Naturally, the biggest contributors were "The Three-Body Problem" which was released at the end of August and the bundled "The Three-Body Problem".
In addition to these two books, the best-performing ones are "The Last Starfish" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". In addition, several film and television works this year also performed very well.
On this day before the National Day in 2021, Zhang Zhong became the first person in history.
It only took Zhang Zhong more than two years to complete this feat. He is only thirty years old this year.
Before this record was broken, everyone believed that Zhang Zhong would definitely be able to do it, but it would only be a matter of time. But when the day finally came, what was expected by everyone also made all Zhang Zhong’s book friends happy
.
Sooner or later it will break, and actually breaking it are two different things after all.
[I’m afraid this is just a starting point. Zhang Zhong is only thirty years old. He will have more works in the future. 】
[Even if he stops writing now, this number will rise to a terrifying level, and the next few waves of film and television productions will definitely boost his sales.]
[I hope to see a grand occasion when everyone in the world has one of his books in their hands.]
[Brothers, there are seven billion people in the world, please know this.]
[One billion a year, the battle will be resolved in seven years, and everyone knows the same. 】
[Wrong, the battle will be resolved in another six years.]
[I got this good news before the National Day, and I felt so happy from head to toe.]
[This can be regarded as Zhang Zhong’s birthday gift to the motherland.]
[The first person in history...and probably the first person who will never come after him.]
【Anyway, it is unprecedented.】
[Nonsense, why would you call me the first person if there were ancient people before me?]
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Gradually, Zhang Zhong is no longer just the light of Nanhuai. He has now become a business card of China. Although many people are still dissatisfied, many foreigners now think of Zhang whenever they mention China.
The world's best-selling author.
And at this point, the world's best-selling author is just waking up.
Today is the National Day. Except for Zhang Xingjun, everyone else in the Zhang family is on holiday, including Xu Yuhan and Meng Mu's Xiaozhu. The doors will not be open for the first four days of the National Day.
Zhang Xingjun's new business has already been opened, mainly selling small trinkets. He has been familiar with this aspect of the business some time ago.
On the 5th, their family will accompany Pengpeng to Yanjing to participate in the children's calligraphy and painting competition. Before that, there is another big event for the Zhang family - a guest is coming.
This time the guests are not ordinary guests, but Xu Yuhan's parents.
The couple paid special attention to this meeting. They asked Xu Yuhan several days in advance what her parents liked to eat, what their taboos were, and most importantly, what their family customs were.
Although they are both in Jiangyang, their customs may not be the same.
It is said that three miles have different pronunciation and ten miles have different customs. Although it is a bit exaggerated, we should not be careless.
Xu Yuhan didn't know much about these things at all, and Zhang Zhong didn't understand either. Later, Xu Yuhan ran to ask her parents. She didn't know whether they really didn't care or were embarrassed to mention it. They just said to be casual.
As soon as Zhang Zhong got up and washed up, there was a knock on the door. Zhang Zhongxin said that Xu Yuhan and the others could not come so early. When he opened the door, he saw that it was his uncle's family.
He knew that his uncle was coming, and his father wanted to find someone to accompany him, so he invited his uncle.
Zhang Chong has an uncle who is older than Hu Huifang and his family is in Yangxi County.
Among all the relatives, Zhang Zhong is the closest to his uncle. However, in the two years since he came back, his uncle has only visited twice, both during the Chinese New Year.
I usually ask him to come, but he refuses.
It's not that he doesn't want to come, it's just that he really can't get away.
My uncle works as a farmer at home, contracting more than 100 acres of land to grow rice, and also planted a small hill to grow peaches. Last year, he also built a paddy field to raise lobsters.
In addition to these things, there are many livestock at home, including chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs. We are really busy all year round without a day off.
In his early years, my uncle's family was very poor, so he worked very hard over the years to build up the family business.
When Zhang Zhong was lying on the bed, his uncle took the initiative to give his mother one hundred thousand yuan. However, the family had not borrowed money at that time, so he did not reach out. After all, it was not easy for the uncle to get money.
If Zhang Zhong doesn't wake up, the 100,000 yuan should be borrowed.
Although the money was not borrowed, the relationship was still carried on.
Later, when Zhang Zhong came back and made money, he also thought about supporting his uncle's family, but his uncle was very stubborn and said that he was not short of money. Later, Zhang Zhong never mentioned this matter. After all, his uncle's family is indeed prosperous now, although he is a little tired.
But it is not a kind of happiness.
"Uncle, aunt, yo, Xiaojie is here too, you are a rare visitor."
Hu Shijie, Zhang Zhong’s little cousin, must be a senior now. He hasn’t been here for several years. During the Chinese New Year, his family used to visit relatives separately during the Chinese New Year, and he hasn’t come over for the Chinese New Year in two years. Zhang Zhong has been there several times.
, I only saw him once.
"Hey, bro, I'm very busy right now."
Aunt Yang Xiuzhi rolled her eyes at her son, "What are you doing as a student? It's true that you fool around outside every day."
Being criticized by his mother, Hu Shijie shrank his head and stepped in. "This is my first time coming to my new home. I want to visit it first."