Chapter 630 Scary Enthusiasm

Plans often fail to keep up with changes.

According to the original plan, Li Chungang will arrive at the bookstore on time at four o'clock, and then carry out the one-and-a-half-hour signing act, but because of the exceptionally smooth recording of the Allen Show, he saved a lot of time, and in addition, in his In my personal opinion, I believe that fans and readers are the parents of food and clothing.

Unlike some writers, it is inevitable that there will be shameful behaviors such as picking up a bowl to eat meat, putting down chopsticks and cursing mothers.

Grace pushed open the glass door of Starbucks and went straight into the bookstore. After all, the two stores are connected together.

The bookstore is as high as three floors, and the space inside is far more spacious than it looks from the outside, but at this moment, the bottom floor is already densely packed with people, so those who really want to come in and buy books have to squeeze through many obstacles to reach the destination.

There are even some people lying on the railings on the second and third floors, reading books or playing with their mobile phones bored, they are all quietly waiting for the arrival of that man!

A few minutes later, each escalator was stopped, and two staff members appeared at each escalator to maintain order. On the first floor, there were staff from Random House, B&N staff, and hired security guards. People from three different companies in the company came forward together to maintain order.

Judging from this posture, something big must have happened. Those lazy readers couldn't help but look up at each other and ask each other, wondering what happened.

"I'm very happy to inform everyone that the book signing event of Li Chungang, the author of "The Lord of the Rings" that was originally scheduled to start at 4 pm will be held one hour earlier. Please consciously line up, our book signing event will start soon!"

In the bookstore's broadcasting system, a sweet female voice repeated it twice, but the excited screams and shouts of the readers directly overwhelmed the broadcasting sound, and many even subconsciously jumped up to celebrate!

When Li Chungang arrived at the B&N bookstore, the readers who had been waiting for a long time cheered immediately!

There were very few aunts I knew from recording programs in the supermarket before. When he came to the bookstore, it was like returning to the home game. It was the same as Kobe Bryant returning to the Lakers home court.

Of course, different groups will have different cognitions, which is the generation gap.

There is no essential difference between American aunts and domestic aunts. Compared with paying attention to such and such a book author, they care more about the trivial matters of daily life such as rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. A book signing may not be as attractive as a daily commodity or a certain supermarket discount event.

If it weren't for the different skin colors and the different languages ​​in his mouth, he would have thought it was in China.

As a foreign author, being sought after by so many fans in the biggest bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, it would be a lie to say that he is unhappy!

"I thought that most of the people who came to the signing event were local Chinese or Asians, but I didn't expect the proportion to be so small." Li Chungang communicated with Thompson in surprise. At this moment, he was surrounded by four burly men in suits. , walking in the front and escorting him to the signing table, and Zhong Guo, who is a real bodyguard, has officially changed his job to become a "boss lady's bodyguard" at this moment. Otherwise, there are so many people present, he can't rest assured that He Miao is alone.

Some people's charm can overcome racial barriers, and he doesn't care if it's because Xi Shi is in the eye of the beholder, anyway He Miao is well-deserved in his eyes...

The most beautiful in the world!

It was the first time he was hugged by so many bodyguards, which gave him the illusion that he was a superstar!

"Lee! I love you!"

"Ah! Ah! When will the new book be released!"

"The Lord of the Rings is so beautiful!"

"I bought five copies of The Lord of the Rings and gave one to the whole family. It's so well written!"

"..."

"You're my favorite Asian, Lee!"

"Li, here is my contact information!"

"Li! I am waiting for you in Room XXX of XXX Hotel tonight!"

Some enthusiastic fans and readers even threw some personal belongings in the direction Li Chungang walked by. Out of the corner of Li Chungang's eyes, he even caught a glimpse of a piece of underwear that all women would wear, consisting of two pieces of cloth and several belts. Frightened by the passing trajectory, he hastily walked forward for several steps and opened a safe distance for the first time.

In the past, I saw comments from time to time on the Internet saying that the people of Millikin are very warm and generous. If you go to the beach in a city like Miami, you can see a lot of naked Americans who can feast your eyes. Li Chungang is still a little dubious, but Now he said that he believed it, 100% believed it!

Let alone a place like the beach, you dare to throw out your underwear in a bookstore so unrestrainedly, what do you think?

The location of the bookstore happened to be in the bustling area of ​​Los Angeles, and many passers-by looked sideways after seeing the movement. Passers-by who didn't know the posture might really think that a certain star was there.

It is not uncommon to see stars in Los Angeles, but it is difficult for many tourists to encounter this kind of opportunity in their lifetime.

No matter which country tourists are from, they all know the existence of Hollywood.

In particular, a red double-decker tourist bus happened to be driving slowly at this time. The tourists on the upper floor were already taking pictures with their mobile phones and cameras. Now of course they will not miss the good opportunity to take photos of celebrities!

Whether he recognizes him or not, even if he can only see the back of his head, he has to take a photo!

"Thompson, you Americans are too enthusiastic."

After finally breaking out of the siege under the escort of a group of bodyguards, Li Chungang couldn't help complaining to Thompson beside him when he saw that he was still safe.

It's a pity that Thompson, who is a little bit of a cow and half a bucket of Chinese is shaking, can't hear the true meaning of the words. He thought the other party was praising the people of Millikin, and then said with a proud smile: "It's not right to be so enthusiastic about you. It's to prove how popular you are in Millikin, so there's nothing wrong with coming to Los Angeles, right?"

Although the sound was not too low, it was completely covered by the screams and cheers like landslides and tsunami, and it was not heard by Li Chungang at all.

The crowd was extremely excited, and these young people with different skin colors and different hairs crowded over excitedly at this moment. If there were no security sub-bureaus to open the way around, I am afraid that Li Chungang would not be able to walk at all.

The moment I first entered the gate of the bookstore, I was surrounded by these enthusiastic readers and fans.

The readers of Millikin are really enthusiastic. When Li Chungang stood in front of the small table prepared in advance, he picked up the microphone and said: "There are thousands of good works, and there are thousands of good authors. Wan Wan, thank you very much for your willingness to waste your time on me, and I hope you will really like the stories I write!"

Not much to say, the staff began to cooperate one after another, handing over books, turning pages, and guiding directions, all in order. Obviously, this is not the first signing event.

Li Chungang, on the other hand, accepted his fate and began to sign. This is the essential work.

The first to come up was an excited white guy who didn't even look like he was an adult, and he said in a mosquito-like voice, "I really, really like The Lord of the Rings, I think Frodo is very well written, and I can't help but fantasize that I am him, and hope that I can be brave and fearless in the face of difficulties like him."

After hearing the young man's words, after Li Chungang wrote his name on the title page of the book, he paused for a while and added "Heaven moves vigorously, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement", which is a well-known motto in China, and Smiling, he explained the deep meaning of this sentence to the other party in English: "This is a sentence of encouragement from Huaguo, which means that as long as you believe in yourself and keep striving, God will see and protect you. And I believe that as long as you must It can be done, after all a halfling can succeed, let alone you!"

It is not appropriate to put poisonous chicken soup at this time, so Li Chungang poured some thick chicken soup into it, hoping that the loyal little readers of the Lord of the Rings can get what they want.

"So you're writing Elvish now?"

"No, these are Chinese characters."

It's just that it looks extraordinarily ethereal, and it can't match the handwriting of some old Chinese doctors, and laymen can't understand it anyway.

The skin on this little fan's neck instantly swelled red, and he begged in a low voice, "Then can you sign me again in Elven script? Please!"

Probably only white people can do this. Li Chungang really doubts whether the young man's blood vessels will burst out.

"First blood" is always a bit of a privilege, not to mention that writing elf novels is not a difficult task, just try to meet the readers' requirements.

"You really kept it in your heart, that's great! It's a pity that I can't learn to pronounce it all the time. I really hope you can publish a special elvish textbook. I'm sure I'd like to buy it, and let all the students in the class read it together." Buy!"

He obviously looks so introverted, and when talking to people, he would subconsciously look down at his toes to distract attention, but he can't stop talking in front of his favorite author.

Li Chungang nodded cooperatively, "I think this is okay, but I have to communicate with Random House first. Thank you again for your love of this book, and I hope this book can accompany you."

After getting the first fan, most of the following fans followed suit, even asking him to sign in Elvish, even if he couldn't understand it at all, but the more elegant and special font seemed more flattering Like a little!

Now Li Chungang's workload increased a lot out of thin air. Not only did he have to write his own name, but he also had to write the elf text again at the same time, and at the same time he had to smile at every fan who came with a book.

For him, it may be a day of signing thousands of books; but for those readers, today is a boring day waiting for a writer for hours.

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Qi Yucheng managed to find an opportunity to sneak out from home. He made an appointment with another friend, Amy, to meet at the bus stop outside the block.

At this moment, he had already come out, but his little friend Amy was nowhere to be seen, so he had to take out his mobile phone and dial Amy's number.

"Hi Amy, this is James, where are you? How come I didn't see you here at the bus stop?"

As a second-generation immigrant, Qi Yucheng also has an English name called James Qi, a very famous name that can be said to be bad street.

Because there are LeBron James in the basketball field, James Cameron in the director field, five leaders named James in the history of Millikin, etc...

You can say that there is nothing wrong with the name James, but you must not look down on someone with the name James.

And Qi Yucheng's father is indeed a diehard fan of LeBron James, otherwise he would not have given his son such an English name.

A hoarse voice came from the phone, which seemed to be changing, "Sorry, I really can't come out, my sister is still at home now."

Qi Yucheng said anxiously: "If we don't go, there might be no one at the signing event, and it will be very miserable. I must go, are you sure you can't come?"

"If there are very few people, can you help me get an autograph too? It's just that my name needs to be written on the giver."

"traitor!"

Qi Yucheng hung up the phone very unhappy, then got on the bus alone, and went to the city center worried.

He didn't pay attention to the New York Times bestseller list, but simply liked Li Chungang's works, plus his identity as a Chinese.

This time, if a cousin in China hadn't sent a special message asking Qi Yucheng to help him get an autograph, he would never have known that Li Chungang was going to hold a signing event in Los Angeles.

Although there are outstanding top figures in all walks of life in Millikin, the Chinese Americans and even the Asian Americans are almost at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

Black people who are always clamoring to reject racial discrimination, in fact, openly and secretly transfer hatred to discriminate against Asians!

Qi Yucheng thought that Li Chungang's reputation was not that great, and he needed to bring his friends to help support the scene.

Feeling annoyed at the moment, he just arrived at the bookstore, and was completely shocked by the dense crowd here.

It's not like I haven't bought books here before, but why are there people queuing up outside the door?

"Sorry to bother you. Is this the place where Li Chungang's signing will be held?" Qi Yucheng mustered up the courage to step up and ask, even worried that the staff of the bookstore didn't know who Li Chungang was. Li Chungang from "Jing", I heard that he will come to sign the sale this afternoon."

At this moment, Qi Yucheng was still a little worried. It's not a good thing if the contrast is too tragic!

Who knew that the staff member took a look at Qi Yucheng, pointed to the circling team and said, "Go to the back and line up, these are all looking for Li Chungang to sign."

"They are all?"

The little guy's eyes widened, he couldn't believe this reality at all!

"Yes. These are all. If I were you, I must go to the queue quickly, otherwise there are hundreds of people waiting in line, and if I am later, I may miss this autograph."

"Thank you, I'll be right there!"

Now Qi Yucheng's mind is full of fog, and Li Chungang is so popular that he doesn't need to support him at all?

He suddenly felt a sense of grievance in his heart that he had been cheated. He originally thought that he liked a well-known local writer who urgently needed support, but it turned out to be an absolute celebrity!