Chapter 211: Dessert Shop
The character competition for "fate/staynight" has ended, but Zhongxia has not released the sequel to "Detective Sherlock", which makes Meng Huo stay at home all day long to draw, feeling like he has nowhere to start.
"Are they not coming out?"
Sometimes he even had the idea of releasing One Piece first, but in the end he still held back.
Anthony and him agreed to compare sales. This sales volume cannot be compared with "Weekly Boy" and "Midsummer Daily". The sales gap between these two magazines is very large, and it has recently reached a double gap.
"Zhongsummer Daily" is updated every working day, and the Zhongsu Bookstores spread all over the corners of China have attracted a large number of stable readers. "Weekly Boy" is updated once a week, and the channels are backward. If Meng Huo is regarded as a reader, he would rather buy "Zhongsummer Daily".
Of course, this does not mean that "Weekly Boy" has failed. In fact, since the last revision, the sales of both Phoenix magazines have been steadily increasing. The only difference is that its growth rate is not as powerful as "Midsummer Daily".
Meng Huo really wanted to make "Weekly Boy" a daily magazine, but this was impossible. Phoenix company's comics have much fewer than Zhongxia comics. It is no longer easy to maintain a "Weekly Boy" and it is impossible to want a daily magazine...
Therefore, this time, Meng Huo did not plan to use "Weekly Boy" to compare. "Detective Conan" in the journal is enough, and One Piece needs to be released separately. Unfortunately, he has not yet figured out the way to release it...
Zhongxia Comics has not released a new work for a long time. I wonder if there was any accident, Meng Huo could only hold back.
He was painting at home. When he started to be bored, he called him.
"Teacher He Xi. Your readers have opened a dessert shop called "He Xi Zhi Home" on Binhai Road. Should we ban their nonsense?"
This is He Qian's phone call. She told Meng Huo that someone had used the name of He Xizhi's house. And those were Meng Huo's readers, members of the Big Sister Alliance, who opened shops in a bustling commercial street near the ocean in Ninghai...
"They pretended to be hung in the store last time, and now they are doing it very silly!"
He Qian was a little angry. In fact, no one had registered a trademark for He Xizhijia. So there was no problem with being used. But on the other hand, He Xi was Meng Huo's pseudonym. The name He Xizhijia had obvious infringement, so he could ban business.
“Dessert shop?”
Meng Huo did not complain about the news, but was a little surprised. A fan dessert shop appeared in his mind. He suddenly saw a waiter wearing a maid skirt. Shaking his head, Meng Huo felt that he was thinking too much. There are few maids in the comics now, and the maid shop has not risen. It should be just an ordinary dessert shop.
But Meng Huo still felt very curious about the dessert shop that was named by his pen name. He asked He Qian not to cause trouble. Then the next morning, Meng Huo put on a hat and went out.
It was rare to go out once. He was on the bus. His hat blocked other people's sight and no one seemed to recognize him. Listening to the chat and discussion of passengers around him, Meng Huo missed him very much. He liked the feeling of staying in the crowd in obscurity.
After several stops, he saw some young girls talking about their works, and even someone talked about "Detective Conan".
"Conan seems to have returned to the main line recently. Have you seen it?"
"I know this. The black-clothed organization appeared last week, which was beyond my expectations. Although ordinary cases are also very interesting, I feel excited when I see the dark curtain come out!"
"It's just that Akimi who died a little pitiful. I didn't expect the Black Organization to be so cruel!"
From their conversations, Meng Huo knew that the foreshadowing of "Detective Conan" was good, and no one could see through it. He was very satisfied. When he arrived at Binhai Road, the young girls chatting in the car also walked down, and they were going to Hexizhi's house as well?
Meng Huo followed them, and sure enough, he soon saw a dessert shop with the signature "He Xizhi Home".
"It's really He Xizhi's house!"
"It's so lively. Are there all members of the alliance?"
This is a newly opened dessert shop with a few pots of flowers outside. The space inside seems to be very large, and it is full of noisy girls, which looks very lively.
The young girls walked in, but Meng Huo's feet stopped. There is no doubt that this store must be the work of the Big Sisters Alliance. And it seems that it has become the base of that fan group?
The dessert shops are full of girls. Meng Huo, as a boy, frowned slightly and had the urge to give up.
"Tsk..."
He heard the sound of his mouth and turned around and saw that several young people appeared beside him at some point, each looking at He Xizhi's house and refused to go in.
"Captain, let's go... there are too many women."
"Yes, I don't want to go in. If someone takes a photo, I will be laughed to death in the company in the future!"
Two men persuaded a young man with glasses in the lead, but the young man with glasses noticed Meng Huo, and he suddenly asked, "Are you a member of the Knights?"
Meng Huo was stunned. Knights Order? Before he could answer, the young man with glasses seemed to be sure: "Forget it, I know if I don't ask such idiots. Who else will come to this store besides the people from the Knights!"
"But it's really a trial..." The young man looked up at the dessert shop and plucked up the courage and said, "I heard that Teacher He Xi drew a portrait of Saber and was hung inside. How could a person from the Knights retreat!"
"Wait..." He turned around and left, and then brought back a few masks within two minutes: "Come on, put this on!"
Meng Huo was also stuffed with a mask. He was a little dizzy. He watched the young men around him quickly put on masks, and then looked at the dessert shop with murderous aura, muttering in his heart: "Do they want to go in? As for?"
However, he still put it on, so he was not afraid of those girls recognizing it when he went in. Although he had already interacted with readers in the Far East District, this kind of shop that was all female readers, Meng Huo was still a little worried when he thought it might be exposed inside.
After the young men put it on, they clapped their faces: "For our queen, come on!"
Meng Huo followed them over.
"Welcome!" However, strangely, after entering the door, a waitress came up and smiled and said, "Do you guys have made an appointment?"
There was no surprise on her face, as if this was not the first time she had greeted a male guest.
"No……"
The young man replied stiffly, it was fine when he looked outside the store. As soon as he entered the store, the air changed, full of the smell of girls and desserts, and the sound of girls laughing in his ears made several people nervous.
Meng Huo was a little better, but after coming in, his nervousness dissipated a lot and he secretly looked around the environment in the store. The environment of this dessert shop is very good, but it is no different from other dessert shops. There are comics and books placed in many places.
"What, I just used a name..."
Shaking his head, Meng Huo was a little disappointed. He didn't see any highlights in the store. It turned out that he just used his pseudonym as howling.
But when the waitress took the young man and him to a seat, Meng Huo found something wrong. He saw a lot of photos of him under the glass on the table, even the menu...
"This, this is Teacher He Xi..."
A young man opened the stacked menu, and the background of the entire menu was like a poster, printed with the scene of Meng Huo playing the piano under the night sky. It was very beautiful, mostly a clip taken from the video of Sky City.
"Teacher He Xi is really handsome!"
"You see, there is also a service for selling photos on this menu. Do we want to buy a few?"
"Boys should forget it. Buy it and attack yourself. But no wonder so many girls come here, and it turns out that there are such special services."
"Hmm? Brother, what's wrong with you..."
The young men were chatting, but they found Meng Huo lying on the table and hitting his head against the glass. If there was a crack on the ground, Meng Huo would have already crawled in. This was the strongest shame play he had ever encountered.
"Let Alice come here to negotiate immediately, and you can't let this store open!"
Meng Huo gritted his teeth and took out his cell phone and started to smack. However, before he clicked to send, his hand was caught by the young man: "Okay, don't play with your cell phone, let's go and see the portrait of Saber first!"
The young men took Meng Huo excitedly to see the portrait.
What's so good about that portrait? Meng Huo was not interested in Saber at all. When he looked at some female customers in the store pointing to the photos under the table and laughed, he finally couldn't help but pull out his hand: "Sorry, you guys go and see it, I want to go to the bathroom."
He left a few young men, found the boy's bathroom, opened a small room, then took off his mask, took out his cell phone and called Alice.
"Hey, Alice? Are you free now? Well... do me a favor..."
Meng Huo said it all over again, which made Alice laugh: "You can't stand it and there are many photos of you there? Huh... Okay, I'll finish the work on my hands first, and I'll go over and talk to them in an hour."
Alice agreed and hung up the phone. Meng Huo breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't care about the existence of He Xizhi's house, nor did he intend to hurt the female readers here. However, the photos spread the world and must be banned.
"Is it an hour..."
Murging at this time, Meng Huo turned around and wanted to go out, but suddenly he heard a crisp sound coming from above.
"Ah, found it!"
Hearing this voice, Meng Huo couldn't help but look up and saw a girl lying on the toilet, looking at him with her eyes shining: "It's indeed Teacher He Xi's voice, I finally found you!"
Chapter completed!