Chapter 287 Sugar Chestnuts (12 Please Subscribe)

"Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" magazine.

In the conference room, the editor-in-chief was leading a group of editors in a meeting.

"First let us know the reader feedback of each comic this week." the editor said. He is a middle-aged man with a big nose.

The person in charge of the marketing department immediately began to report the market feedback data of each comic published in the magazine last week.

The competition in comics is very fierce. On the Internet, everyone can publish their own comics. If they are not popular, they will only have fewer readers. But in magazines, if they are not popular, they will be cut in half and the manuscript will be withdrawn.

"Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" randomly selects readers for interviews every week to find out which of the comics published in this week is the most popular, and which one is at the bottom that no one reads.

If it is the first time for the comic at the bottom, you will be notified. If it is the second time, you will be asked to finish it early and give up the position to the next comic.

“The first one is ‘Demon Tower’.” the person in charge of the marketing department reported.

The editors here did not have many emotional changes. In fact, since this year, "Fantasy Night of the Tang Dynasty" has been competing between two powers, either "The Demon Tower" won the first place, or "Flower Fantasy World", The two take turns.

So it’s no surprise that this time it’s the turn of “Devil Tower”.

What everyone is more concerned about is the ones at the bottom. Maybe some comics will be cut in half.

There was only the sound of announcements in the conference room, and the rankings of the announcements were from high to low:..."No. 1 in the World"..."The Prince" and "Coco". "

Hearing this, the editor-in-chief Wang Yinghu's heart jumped. He was responsible for three newly published comics, "Coco".

His first reaction was that "Coco" was going to be axed, and then he thought that new comics have a one-week protection period, that is, the first week will not be counted, and even if they are at the bottom, they will not be counted.

Although there is a protection period, the ranking at least shows that this comic is not popular in the market.

At this time, Wang Yinghu saw the person who reported the news, smacked his lips, and said: "The last one, "Lucifer Scholar"."

He was stunned for a moment before realizing that there was another book at the bottom, and it turned out to be "Lucifer's Master"!

This comic was at the bottom last week!

Gonna be chopped down.

Sure enough, after the briefing, the editor-in-chief said without hesitation: "Ax "Lucifer Scholar" and let them prepare the final chapter and publish it in the monthly magazine."

The editor in charge of "Lucifer Scholar" looked unhappy, nodded and said ok in a muffled voice.

Then the editor-in-chief said: "The two new comics are ranked second and third from the bottom, so we should pay more attention to them."

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In Little Red Pony Academy, the comic studio received news from the magazine, saying that the response to "Coco" was not very good, ranking at the bottom, and that the quality of subsequent plots must be improved.

This poured cold water on Xin Xiaoguang and others, because the news he received was mostly praised, so why did the magazine's market survey show the opposite result?

Wu Shiying was calmer and analyzed: "If you think about it carefully, it is actually our colleagues in the industry who praise our comics for being good. We did not listen to the voice of the market."

Xin Xiaoguang understood immediately. To put it simply, it was a matter of success but not success. It's just like a literary film. The shooting techniques, narrative techniques, costumes and props, etc. are so awesome that the experts admire them. However, once it was released, the box office was dismal.

This situation may happen now in "Coco".

In addition to feedback on the market survey results, the magazine also asked Xiaohongman Comics Studio to make changes to the subsequent plot, making the plot more tense and contradictory.

However, this suggestion was directly rejected by Zhang Tan and others. They blindly cater to the market and give up their own persistence. This is not what everyone wants.

What's more, it's only the first week now, and the story of "Coco" has just begun.

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After lunch, the sun rose above our heads, casting warm sunshine, and the temperature in the valley rose to the highest point of the day.

"Grandma, are you feeling better?~~~"

Xiaobai carried a bamboo basket, wore rain boots, and held a fire tong in his hand. He hurriedly ran to the yard, stood in the sun, and shouted into the house.

Grandma's warm voice came from the room: "Xiaobai, don't be anxious, it's still early."

It's been a week since I returned home, and Xiaobai has returned to the little village girl she once was.

She changed out of her beautiful new clothes and wore an old flowered jacket, made of cotton, bright red, and patterned. Her grandma made it for her in the summer to prepare her to wear it when she went home for the New Year.

I can no longer wear the clothes I used to wear because my children are growing up day by day.

The weather at home was colder and there was no air conditioning. Xiaobai's face turned apple red, but his energy level remained intact and his eyes were still bright.

At this moment, before grandma came out, she shouted towards another house not far away: "Dunzi~~~~~"

A little fat man immediately ran out of the house, jumped up and waved to Xiao Bai, and then ran on the field ridge, running this way, and appeared in front of Xiao Bai, with a bright red face full of a naive smile: "Xiao Bai, why don't you just go ahead?"

"We're going to pick up chestnuts. Are you going? You have a runny nose~" Xiaobai said.

Upon hearing this, Dunzi wiped his nose with a smile and sniffed~~~~

Xiaobai and Dunzi are the same age and the same size, but Xiaobai is skinnier than Dunzi.

Dunzi has been strong, able to eat, and strong since he was a child.

Xiaobai did not breastfeed when he was a child. He grew up eating porridge and milk powder, and his nutrition could not keep up.

Occasionally, Dunzi's mother would feed the little girl.

Dunzi is strong, but a little silly. He is not very smart and reacts slower than ordinary people. He is bullied. Xiaobai is smart and often teaches him.

Xiaobai is also bullied by other children because she is thin. At this time, it is Dunzi who protects her.

Dunzi nodded and said that she wanted to play with him. Xiaobai told him to go home and put on his hat because it was cold in the mountains.

"Xiaobai, you have to wait for me." Dunzi ran up the ridge like a small tank and rushed home.

After a while, the three appeared in the forest behind the house. Xiaobai and Dunzi ran in front, da da da~~ ton ton ton~~~ disappearing on the path in the mountains for a while, and then appearing again.

The three came to a forest where many tall chestnut trees grew. Many ripe chestnuts fell to the ground. Some chestnuts fell out of the thorny shells and lay on the fallen leaves, while others still lay inside with a crack. At this time, you have to use tongs to pick out the chestnuts inside.

Grandma and Xiaobai both brought fire tongs, but Dunzi came empty-handed. But this did not bother him. He picked up a branch as a stick and smashed the chestnuts violently. Every time he smashed one, he put the chestnuts in Xiaobai's bamboo basket as soon as possible.

He smashed another one and put the chestnuts in Xiaobai's basket, and asked innocently: "Xiaobai, is it fun outside?"

Xiaobai looked at the chestnuts in his basket, turned his head to look at grandma's, and laughed: "It's fun."

Dunzi sniffed his nose, raised his hand to wipe it, and his honest little face was full of silly smiles.

Xiaobai told him about the outside world, and Dunzi was immediately attracted. He stopped smashing chestnuts and became Xiaobai's follower, following her closely.

The mountain wind blew, and a rustling sound came from the forest. Grandma stopped and looked somewhere in the dense forest, asking Xiaobai and Dunzi not to talk first, but to listen carefully to what was coming.

Xiaobai and Dunzi have lived here since they were young, and they know that there are wild animals in the forest. Dunzi immediately picked up a stick on the ground, instinctively blocked in front of Xiaobai, and stared at the place where the sound came from.

A fat chestnut rabbit came out from the leaves, and Xiaobai and Dunzi rushed out at the same time.

"Don't let it run away~~~ Dunzi, don't follow me, you block that end~~~"

Half an hour later, the three left and went home, with a basket full of chestnuts, but Xiaobai muttered, full of regrets, the fat rabbit ran away, Dunzi's tactical coordination awareness was too poor, and he failed to block it.

The sun was hanging on the top of the mountain, shining obliquely on the fields. Xiaobai led the way, followed by Dunzi, and grandma came in the rear. They walked on the ridge of the field and returned home. Grandma started to cook chestnuts. After washing them, she cut a hole with scissors and poured them into the rice cooker. She put a spoonful of oil, five pieces of rock sugar, and water in it, just enough to cover the chestnuts. She covered it and cooked it for fifteen minutes before eating.

When the sun set on the hillside, Xiaobai and Dunzi sat side by side in the yard, eating the candied chestnuts with relish.

Dunzi often forgot about eating because he was fascinated by Xiaobai's story. The outside world and the stories in the picture books were too interesting.