Chapter 242: Order
"The skull wearing a straw hat, the wanted order, the sail...and this!"
A man put a few posters on the table, held the last one in his hand and said, "This is the most normal one, what do you think?"
Sun Minghui, who was sitting opposite him, looked over. This was a black poster with several people arranged on it. He couldn't see the specific appearance clearly, and only had a white body outline. In fact, this poster only had two colors: black and white, the background was black, and the content inside was white.
In addition to the main figures, there is a white straw hat skull above, followed by a few words: One Piece.
"This is the title..."
Sun Minghui asked.
"Yes, title, but that doesn't matter! What's important is...bang!"
The man took the poster on the table and said coldly: "Teacher He Xi's new work is really a pirate! Pirates are those who rob and kill people at sea. What's the point of this subject? Manager Sun, let's take a rock-scissors. Whoever loses will order the new magazine of Phoenix Company. How about it?"
This is a higher education institution. Sun Minghui and the man who talks are both the bookstore owners of this school. There are only two regular bookstores in this school. They are discussing the issue of ordering comics. The students here are very enthusiastic about buying comics, and the competition between the two bookstores is very fierce.
After hearing that He Xi would release a new magazine, the man took the lead in proposing the idea of one person being one family, that is, one bookstore orders He Xi’s new magazine and another bookstore orders "Weekly Boutiques", and is not allowed to interfere with each other.
"Do you also think Teacher He Xi will lose to Li Xin?"
Sun Minghui was slightly surprised. The two of them had not decided because they didn't know how to distribute it. Now that He Xi's new magazine content was released, he didn't expect that the man would immediately tell the tricks of rock-scissors. Moreover, He Xi was still the loser.
"Isn't this obvious!" The man nodded: "Weekly Premium" sales have increased again this week. Phoenix's new magazine only has one "One Piece". Is it still useful to compare? If you don't compare, you know that Teacher He Xi will definitely lose."
"Come on, don't delay it, stick to luck, no one complains."
He said that it is better to sell it separately than to compete with each other. Since Zhongxia's "Son of the Detective" was released, the sales of "Weekly Boutique" have soared, and men can't help but want to monopolize it.
"Since you said that," Sun Minghui smiled: "I also want "Weekly Premium", it depends on my fate."
He stood up and then beat the man with a rock-scissor, winning two games in three games, and the final result was - losing.
"Haha. There's no way, Lao Sun, it seems that I'm lucky!"
The man patted Sun Minghui on the shoulder and smiled happily: "The Weekly Boy and the Middle Summer Daily News are still the same as purchasing together, but you can't order the Weekly Best Picture in the future. This comic is now under my control."
Sun Minghui sighed and nodded regretfully.
"I get it, leave me the poster."
He returned to his bookstore with a few posters. When his wife saw his frowning face, she asked curiously: "Why are your face so bad?"
"We can't order "Weekly Premium" in the future..." Sun Minghui put the poster on the table, then sat down weakly on the chair next to him: "I just met Cong Ya's boss. He bet with me, and we have to be responsible for ordering Teacher He Xi's new magazine."
"Where is the Weekly Premium? Are they responsible for that magazine? Are you kidding?"
My wife was furious. "Weekly Boutique" sold very well in school, and it can sell at least 200 books a week. The two bookstores combined have more than 400 books, and the profit is higher than many best-selling novels. How come it is gone if it is gone!
"I agreed, I can't go back on my word." Sun Minghui shrank his head weakly and defended: "Besides, don't you like Teacher He Xi more? This is also a good thing..."
"Like it is like it, but this..."
The wife sighed, she spread out the poster, frowned and said, "Teacher He Xi's new comic is a pirate comic. Everyone calls it a shame. I don't really like the market... Well? It seems a bit strange..."
She flipped through the poster and suddenly realized that it was a little weird.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Minghui got up from the chair. His wife has always been smart. Did he see something?
"The story of this pirate..." The wife continued to look at it. She carefully compared the poster several times before slowly saying: "It seems different from the pirates we know."
"Look at these two..." She pointed to the poster of the skull in the straw hat and the poster of the wanted warrant: "Do you find anything in common?"
Sun Minghui didn't think much: "Stell Hat, what's so strange about this!"
The person on the wanted warrant had a straw hat, exactly the same as the one on the skull.
"Yes, then this character should be the protagonist, and the captain." The wife nodded and continued: "I think the skeleton should be the flag of their pirates... and in this picture, the straw hat boy is standing in the middle."
She took out the black and white picture again. Among the people on it was a figure wearing a straw hat.
"It makes sense, then what? What's the weird thing about this?"
Sun Minghui continued to ask.
"You are stupid. Do ordinary pirates wear straw hats?" said the wife: "Pirates are criminals who specialize in robbing other ships at sea or along the coast. They are symbols of evil. A pirate captain wearing straw hats will not be laughed to death if he says it!"
"And his style doesn't feel evil." She looked at the avatar of the protagonist of One Piece and frowned slightly: "Maybe just like the slogan, this is a passionate comic that tells friendship and dreams."
"Can you still express friendship and passion with the word 'thief'?" Sun Minghui widened his eyes, and he reached out to his wife's forehead: "Do you trust Teacher He Xi too much and won't have a high fever, right?"
"Go to die, you're having a high fever."
The wife patted his hand away and snorted coldly: "Before "Detective Conan", who could have thought that detective comics could be so youthful? When I told you, you were still unbelievable and unwilling to purchase goods, so don't use the standards of ordinary people to measure Teacher He Xi's thinking."
Sun Minghui was stunned and surprised: "You mean "One Piece" will be as shocking as "Detective Conan"?"
"It's possible..." the wife nodded and said slowly: "No matter what, try increasing orders..."
Time flies, May 8th
Amid the curiosity of many readers and the media's ridicule, Phoenix has launched the new magazine "Sacrifice" and the new comic "One Piece".
Chapter completed!