Volume 6: Summer Chapter 8 Game
Seeing that Jiang You mentioned the exhibition several times, Chen Nan asked him, "Do you want to hire a painting teacher for him?"
"There's no rush. When he goes to school, if he still likes painting, we'll find him a teacher and teach him systematically," Jiang You was peeling shrimp. "Now, we just need to distract him from playing games. It will be troublesome if he becomes nearsighted. It's inconvenient to wear glasses. I have to go for an eye examination every year to check the macula and intraocular pressure." He put the shrimp into his mouth and wiped his hands with a tissue. "I plan to go for a physical examination next month. I hope I can be thinner by then."
"Do you know that recently there was a game that was complained by a parent of an underage child under his real name, and then it was taken off the shelves and required to be rectified," said Liu Boyang.
"Did that kid charge a lot of money?" Jiang You asked.
"It doesn't seem to be. Let me check." Liu Boyang picked up his phone and searched for it. "It's a mobile game. There was a team activity recently. During the activity, this kid was scolded by other players. His parents saw it and filed a complaint."
"Can't the game block those words?" Lin Yu was a little confused.
"Maybe it's the voice? I'm not sure about that, but it's been taken down anyway."
"What's the name of the game?" Jiang You asked.
"It's a martial arts-themed mobile game." Liu Boyang read out the name of the game.
Jiang You thought it sounded familiar, so he took out his phone and flipped through it, and sure enough, he found the game app. "That's the game."
"You play too?"
"My son has been playing since the internal beta. The people in this game are really swearing. Every time my son plays, he smashes his phone, and I have to swear back. No wonder they have to crack down on him," Jiang You shook his head. "One of my tenants works in this company and works overtime every day."
After Lin Yu read the press release on his phone, he said, "The parents heard the voice and then played the game. They collected audio screenshots for a month. It's amazing. They are like undercover agents."
As they were talking, the last two dishes were served on the table, Steamed Pork with Rice Flour and Steamed Wuchang Fish. They all stopped talking and concentrated on eating.
The plate was empty as the chopsticks came and went.
Jiang You put down his chopsticks, took a sip of water and asked Chen Nan, "I didn't eat too much today, did I?"
Chen Nan looked at the shrimp shells and fish bones piled in the bone dish.
"You see, I used to order a staple food, fried rice or something like that," Jiang You looked at Lin Yu and Liu Boyang, "Are you full? Do you want some Sanxian tofu skin?"
"I'm full." said Liu Boyang.
Jiang You looked at Lin Yu.
“I’m full.”
"Yeah," Jiang You paid the bill on his phone and stood up. "Then let's go. It's getting late."
…
When Jiang You and his three companions returned to the bookstore, there were already more than twenty girls sitting inside.
The bookstore suddenly became crowded.
When Xiao Liu saw them coming back, she went to greet them and said, "Mrs. Ruolan should be here soon. I'll go to the gate to pick her up."
Chen Nan agreed and said, "Go ahead."
At this moment, the girls suddenly burst into laughter.
Jiang You looked in the direction where the laughter came from, only to see them laughing so hard that they were bent over. Occasionally he could hear a few words, but they sounded like some kind of secret code and were totally incomprehensible.
Jiang You saw Liu Boyang subconsciously cover his ears with his hands, then put them down. He said, "Teacher Liu, why don't you go back first."
"No, it's okay. There are so many people here that I feel a little..."
"I promise not to make a flower wall, really," Jiang You assured Liu Boyang, "At worst, I can buy a few sets of doll clothes online, wear them and stand at the door to greet guests, and the effect should be there."
"Let me go to your yard and take another look." Liu Boyang said.
"Okay, if you feel hot, you can go sit in the store for a while. There are drinks in the refrigerator." Jiang You took out the keys and pointed to a copper-yellow key and said, "This is for opening the store door. When you leave, put the key on the table and don't close the door."
"Okay, okay." Liu Boyang took the key.
After he walked out of the bookstore, he saw five or six girls walking towards him from not far away. He quickly walked to the street and then walked quickly towards the insect house.
After Chen Nan and Lin Yu arranged the girls to line up, she walked over to Jiang You and asked, "Is your friend gone?"
"It's too noisy," Jiang You whispered in her ear, "It makes my head hurt too, hundreds of ducks."
"Don't you go to comic conventions often? It's more noisy over there."
“It’s the atmosphere.”
"Is there nothing you like?" Chen Nan glanced at him.
Li Sheng and her friends walked in, and when they saw that the line had already formed, they consciously stood at the end of the line.
Li Sheng looked at Jiang You and asked, "Do you know when Mrs. Ruolan will arrive?"
"It's almost time. Someone is going to pick her up."
About twenty minutes later, Xiao Liu walked in with a young round-faced girl wearing Hanfu, whose facial features barely matched those in the photo.
Behind them was a man dragging a suitcase.
The girls in line cheered again.
After Ruolan sat down, she became shy after saying a few words.
The signing began.
Chen Nan collected the money, Xiao Liu distributed the picture albums and peripherals, and Lin Yu maintained order. Jiang You saw that there was nothing to do in the store, so he went outside.
Gradually more and more people came.
There were already a lot of people on Cultural Street on Saturdays, and when they saw such a long line made up entirely of girls, some passers-by who came to join in the fun were also attracted, and the composition of the line gradually became a little more complicated.
A couple came over. The woman took a closer look at the sign, and the man came up to ask Jiang You, "Is there a discount?"
"The books are on sale today, and the people lining up are for the book signing event..." Jiang You had just said four words when a girl came out from behind him. It was Li Sheng. She said, "Do you know Mrs. Ruolan? She came here today. She was so gentle and drew a very thoughtful autograph for me!"
Li Sheng said this as she opened the cover of the album she bought and let them see the signatures and drawings.
"It's a nice painting," the man commented. He glanced at his girlfriend and said, "Let's go. It feels like we're going to have to wait in line for a long time. Don't you want to go to the park?"
The woman nodded, and they walked away hand in hand.
Li Sheng took a step back in disappointment.
"How many books did you buy?" Jiang You asked her.
"One."
"I heard that the price of her picture album from last year has increased a lot. Why don't you buy a few more copies?"
"I originally wanted to buy two copies, one to read and one to keep, but someone in front of me bought a lot of copies at once, and Mrs. Ruolan got angry and said that each person could only have one copy."
"There were fewer people at that time, so I went to buy a copy."
"Okay, thank you."
