If he wasn't shooting a video, Parker wouldn't mind finding a seat on the balcony, taking advantage of the soft sunshine in the spring afternoon and entering his own reading world with a book. If he was thirsty, he would pick up the coffee in front of him and take a sip.
When I was tired, I stretched out and looked far into the distance, looking at the dense jungle on Iris Mountain and the occasional rising smoke.
Or just lower your head, look at the people passing by on the street, and feel the smell of fireworks outside the bookstore.
There is no need for Parker to be in a hurry. He will stay in Jiangyang for a few days and there will be plenty of time to enjoy things later.
He passed by the balcony and walked directly into the reading hall on the second floor.
As soon as he went up, Parker saw a sloping bookshelf facing the door, with a pile of books placed vertically on it. Parker was very familiar with these books, because these books were all heavy.
There is a sign on the bookshelf with the words "Zhang Zhong Special Topic" clearly written on it.
Parker walked closer and saw two lines of small words under "Zhang Zhong Special Topic".
One line is: All books in this book shelf can only be read in the store and cannot be borrowed.
The other line is: Please put the book back where it belongs after reading, thank you for your cooperation.
Seeing these two lines of words, Parker felt a little strange. Why is there such a prompt? Is it because these books are serious?
Out of curiosity, he took a copy of "Dune" from the bookshelf.
After opening the book, Parker finally understood why these books were no longer available for loan, because the word "Zhang Zhong" was written on the title page.
As a fan of Zhang Zhong, I can naturally recognize that these two characters were written by Zhang Zhong.
It turns out that these books are all signed by Zhang Zhong. No wonder there is a notice that they cannot be borrowed.
Parker glanced at another bookshelf next to him, which was similar to Zhang Zhong's special bookshelf, but it had the words "Yu Dongyu Special Topics" written on it.
He ran to the bookshelf next to him, picked up a book and opened it. Sure enough, just like Zhang Zhong's special book, the books here also had Yu Dongyu's autograph.
Then, he discovered more bookshelves.
There are "Chi Qing Special Topic", "Zhao Re Special Topic", "Qin Zhao Special Topic", etc., and they all seem to be authors under the name of Zhang Zhong's company.
It seems that the front row on the second floor of this bookstore is an autograph library.
Parker is increasingly convinced that Zhang Zhong is related to this bookstore. If not, how did this bookstore get so many autographed books? Basically all the books by these authors are already available.
In fact, Parker still underestimated the origin of these books. The books in front of him were not just signed by the authors. These books were originally contributed by the writers themselves, and the books were all included in the writer's membership information.
Some books are even taken from the writer's own bookshelf. For example, the books on Zhang Zhong's special bookshelf were taken directly from Zhang Zhong's study. Some books were even placed in two copies in Zhang Zhong's study.
Three years.
Looking around, Parker found a notebook hanging on the side of each writer's special bookshelf.
He picked up one and opened it. It was filled with messages from readers.
Zhang Zhong has the most messages, and has written dozens of pages, and this notebook may not be the first one, there may already be notebooks that are full.
The messages in the notebook are all written very neatly, and there are almost no messages that are one or two sentences long. They are all in long paragraphs.
When Parker saw these messages, his hands were a little itchy, but now was not the time to write messages, so he could only put it aside for the time being and start shooting the video seriously.
He pointed the camera at the row of bookshelves in front and said, "Look what I found. Does this row of bookshelves look different from other large bookshelves? We can see that on each bookshelf..."
Parker was frightened and turned around again, but he found a young man standing next to him, looking at him with a smile.
This young man Parker had met before, it was the anchor that the bookstore owner pointed out to him before. It seemed that he was live broadcasting on a live broadcast platform called WhatMai.
"Do you want to take pictures here too?" Parker said with a smile.
The young man nodded, "It doesn't matter, you shoot first, I'm live broadcasting here."
Neither of them spoke loudly, including when Parker was filming the video, because this is a bookstore and many people are reading books seriously.
"Oh, I've finished filming here."
"OK."
The young man smiled, held up the selfie stick, pointed it at the bookshelf, and said, "This is the second floor. There is a row of bookshelves in front. Here..."
Xu Zi held a selfie stick in one hand to take pictures of the bookstore, and held a mobile phone in the other hand to watch the barrage in the live broadcast room, communicating with the audience at any time.
When he was moving the selfie stick just now, he might have taken a picture of Parker.
Someone in the live broadcast room recognized Parker, and a bunch of Parker's names suddenly popped up on the barrage.
Seeing the word "Parker" written a lot on the barrage, Xu Zizai wondered, "Who is Parker?"
[Parker is a big YouTuber who specializes in special topics. He recorded the audiobook of the English version of "Dune" before.]
Someone introduced Parker to Xu Zizai in the barrage.
Seeing the introduction of the barrage, Xu Zizai suddenly remembered that he had indeed heard of the name Parker. It was also because "Dune" was on the news when he was listening to the book, and he saw it while watching the news.
Xu Zizai ran up to Parker with a selfie stick and asked, "Hello, are you Parker?"
Parker was looking at the bookshelf in the back row. When Xu Zizai asked him, he laughed, "Do you know me?"
Xu Zizai was also quite upright and said, "Actually, I don't know you, I just heard your name, but some viewers in my live broadcast room recognized you. I'm still live broadcasting here, is it okay?"
"It's okay." Parker waved his hand nonchalantly and said generously, "Would you like me to show up and say hello to your audience?"
It was fate that they met. Parker wanted to attract a wave of popularity to the young man in front of him. He had a good impression of reading anchors. After all, anchors in this field are very rare.
Xu Zizai nodded repeatedly, "Of course, of course, if possible."
"It's okay." Parker walked naturally to where he was side by side with Xu Zizai, smiled at the camera and greeted: "Hello everyone, I'm Parker."
When the audience saw it was Parker, they started posting comments frantically.
Xu Zizai showed the other mobile phone to Parker, "Look, the audience is also greeting you."
"Really? Let me take a look." Parker looked down and was stunned because he saw a barrage on the screen.
The dense barrage directly covered the screen.
He feels that he is already a big fan, but he rarely sees such a dense barrage.
Moreover, live broadcasts are different from videos. Live broadcast barrages cannot be accumulated and are all real-time. With such dense barrages, one can imagine how popular this anchor is.
Parker's mind is filled with questions: Can China's reading live streaming be so popular?