There seems to be no conflict between wanting to grow up and wanting to go to elementary school, but it's a bit too greedy...
While they were joking, Zhang Zhong took Xu Yuhan and the others into Tongyoutongwu Bookstore.
A young girl was standing at the front desk sorting something, while the boss Qin Cheng was tinkering with the coffee machine behind the cashier.
Zhang Zhong entered next to the cashier. The little girl raised her head and glanced at Zhang Zhong and the others, showing a standard professional smile. Then her pupils slowly became larger. She wanted to call out Zhang Zhong's name, but she held it back.
"Hello."
Zhang Jian nodded, thinking that the professional quality of this cashier whom Qin Cheng found somewhere was quite good.
This hello did not attract Qin Cheng's attention, and the girl said to Qin Cheng, "Boss, someone is looking for you."
Qin Cheng then turned around and saw Zhang Zhong and the others, and was surprised and asked, "Why are you here?"
"Why, I'm also a shareholder, let's see if it's okay." Zhang Zhong joked with a smile, "Why are you doing things in the food area again?"
Qin Cheng smiled and said, "Xiao Li took personal leave today, so I took over for him for half a day. Anyway, I like tinkering with these things myself, so I just use them as exercises to stretch my muscles. Whatever you want to drink, I'll make it for you."
Zhang Zhong was not polite and took the order directly, "Give me a cup of hot Americano, give Pengpeng a cup of fresh milk, and Yuhan will order it herself."
"I want a cup of hot cocoa, Brother Qin." Xu Yuhan said.
Qin Cheng made an OK gesture and said, "Okay, it will be fine in a moment. There are few people today."
Zhang Chong looked around again and asked, "Where is Qin Zhao?"
"He is reading on the balcony on the second floor. You can see him when you go up." Qin Cheng pointed to the second floor and said.
Qin Zhao has a special place on the second floor. Basically, he is in that place every time he reads.
But the weather is very cold today. Is there any sun outside? The place where Qin Zhao often sits is a place often visited by the cold wind. Zhang Zhong thought Qin Zhao would not read there today.
Zhang Zhong was not in a hurry to go up to find Qin Zhao, but took a look around on the first floor.
It was in the evening, it was the middle of the week, and the weather was cold, so there were many fewer people coming out to read.
Maybe there will be more people after dinner, but the number may be limited, after all, not many people are willing to go out in this weather.
There were about a dozen people sitting on the benches on the first floor, and there were more than a dozen people scattered in other places. The total number of people in the entire hall on the first floor was estimated to be only thirty-four.
Although Zhang Zhong has not gone to the second floor yet, he estimates that the situation should be similar.
"Just put the things on the bar when they're ready. We'll come and get them ourselves." Zhang Zhong said to Qin Cheng, and then took Xu Yuhan and Peng Peng to the lobby on the first floor.
Now the bookshelves on the first floor are basically full, which is different from when the bookstore first opened.
There is a whiteboard at the end of the bench, with the most liked book review articles posted during this period.
There is an electronic display next to the whiteboard, and the content is a bit richer. In addition to book review articles, there are also recent store owner recommendations, in-store event notifications, scrolling book reviews and other things.
Zhang Zhong stood in front of the two boards and read the contents for a while.
There are two book reviews posted on the whiteboard, one for "Lord of the Flies" and the other for "The World on the Left".
"The World on the Left" is Zhao Re's new book. It has just been released less than a month ago and is still selling like hotcakes.
Zhang Zhong has already read this novel. The protagonist of the novel is a rather special person. He has been deaf in his left ear since he was a child, so he is very resistant to his left side.
He basically won't look to his left. Even if someone calls him from the left, he will turn 270 degrees to the right to face the person calling him.
When he leaves home, his first step will not be to the left. Even if his destination today is on the left, he will make a long circle.
This is nothing. At most, it is a little inconvenient in life and occasionally makes some harmless jokes.
Until one day, a neighbor moved to the left of his house.
When the neighbor first moved in, he greeted him several times, but he did not respond and instead turned away because he had a fear of the left side of his door.
Even after more than a month, he didn't know what his new neighbor looked like.
In fact, he himself was very sorry. It would have been nice if he could have met his new neighbor once when he got off work in the evening, because then he could say hello to each other normally.
In the following period, a lot of things seemed to happen to the new neighbor's house, and they all happened when he went out in the morning.
Sometimes you can hear a man and a woman quarreling from the neighbor's house, sometimes you can hear many people talking, and sometimes you can hear some decoration sounds.
Once, he even heard a slight scream.
But none of this made him turn to his left and take a look in the morning.
Until one day, when he was getting off work in the evening, he met a man at his neighbor's door.
He was very happy because this was the first time he met his new neighbor.
When they met for the first time, he apologized to his neighbor and said that he didn't mean to ignore his neighbor's greeting before, but it was because of special circumstances.
But the neighbor told him with some confusion that he had just moved in, and the previous owner told him that no one had lived in this house for a long time.
The story ends abruptly here, leaving readers with suspense. When this book first came out, many people scolded Zhao Re, saying that he was being mysterious and the story ended halfway through.
However, Zhao Re insisted that he has definitely finished writing the novel and has no plans to publish a sequel in the future.
And this is not a novel with an open ending. The specific ending has actually been laid out in advance. As long as you find the clues, you will know what the ending of this novel is.
But nearly a month has passed and no one has found the answer in the book.
Zhang Zhong only read it once and tried to find the answer through his strong memory, but failed.
Zhao Re said that if no one finds the answer within three months, he will announce the answer himself.
I have to say that Zhao Re’s move at least has a marketing effect.
No one wants to admit that they are stupid, and everyone thinks that they are smart, so many people are crazy about looking for answers in books.
Whenever we talk about this book in the forum, we are always exchanging information about the ending and exchanging clues.
The book review in front of Zhang Zhong is actually a post about organizing important clues. Because it is the best organized, it gets more likes.