Chapter 641: Let's Work
Early the next morning, around 8:00, Boss Jia appeared at the entrance of the Tokyo Big Sight, where Comicmarket was held.
It was still 1994, and the anime culture in Fuso was not as crazy as later generations, with millions of people participating in the Comicmarket every time.
However, Boss Jia looked at it, and there were still more than 100,000 people in line.
Because Comicmarket is before 9:30 a.m., it is the time for all clubs, cartoonists, and artists to enter the exhibition. After 9:30 a.m., it is time for customers to enter.
As the chairman of Daqian Group, Boss Jia could have had some special passages, but because of some yearning for Comicmarket in his previous life, Boss Jia decided to be an ordinary person and queued up with everyone to enter.
Then Boss Jia quickly regretted this decision, because it was August, when the weather was the hottest, where could Boss Jia withstand such a high temperature, plus the sweat smell of all the people in line around him, so Boss Jia and Takahashi Kazuki were very helpless and retreated.
"Boss, otherwise, I'll go find a few cartoonists I know and ask him to give you a work permit, and you can enter in advance as a staff member of the exhibition!" Kazuki Takahashi said.
"If you don't say this kind of good thing earlier...... Boss Jia rolled his eyes, this Takahashi Kazuki doesn't seem to be a good subordinate, and he doesn't know how to think about the leader at all.
Just as Takahashi and Nozomi were preparing to contact someone, a weak voice asked in their ears, "Excuse me, are you here to work?" ”
"Part-time job?" Boss Jia was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, and then found that it was a somewhat weak teenager who spoke.
"That's right, because the tasks of the exhibitors are heavier, so they need a lot of people to help, I originally asked two friends to help me, but they can't come temporarily!" The boy said.
"We don't work part-time...... Kazuki Takahashi said decisively.
"If you are working, I can give you an employee ID so that you can enter directly from the exhibitor lane without queuing. Also, I should only sell for one morning, and after the afternoon you will be fine, you can move freely, I don't care about you! In addition, each of you has a salary of 5,000 yen. When the boy spoke, he was still a little shy, and the roots of his ears were red.
"Okay, then we can work!" Boss Jia said decisively, it seems that he hasn't done it for a long time. And I earn 5,000 yen in half a day, which is quite a good salary.
And selling things on Comicmarket, this is something that Boss Jia has never experienced, it's so fun, and you don't need to bask in the sun outside, of course Boss Jia agreed.
Soon, the weak teenager gave Boss Jia a work permit for each of them, and the three of them successfully entered the venue in advance from the exhibitor channel with the work permit. And Boss Jia's job is to help the weak boy move the goods he sells from the goods channel to the vicinity of the booth.
At this time, although the customers have not yet entered the venue, the entire venue is already in full swing, and a large number of exhibitors are carefully decorating their booths.
"Where is our booth?" After coming in, Boss Jia asked curiously.
"There it is!" The weak boy pointed to a clearing not far away, Takahashi and Nozomi glanced at it, and then their mouths couldn't help but grow, "Your booth is so big!" ”
Indeed, the booth of the weak boy is a little too big, about 15 meters long, and compared with the other booths around, the booth of the weak boy alone is equivalent to the development of 10 people.
After all, the exhibitors who will sell things on Comicmarket, in addition to those large companies and large two-dimensional societies, are basically small individual sellers.
The output of these individual sellers is only so much, and each person sells a few books, or a few tapes, or a photo album or something, and it's all right.
Therefore, the vast majority of individual sellers, their booths, are only the size of two school desks, about 1.5 meters long is enough.
If the weak boy has a lot of goods, the problem is that now all his goods are in the arms of Boss Jia and Takahashi Kazuki, which together are two boxes, and the total weight is probably less than 20 kilograms.
For such a lost thing, a desk is enough, where can I use the booth of the 15-meter factory!
"I didn't know, when I came to apply for the exhibition, they said that individual exhibitors could book such a large booth at the most!" The weak boy said, "Anyway, I don't have much money, so I'll settle down!" ”
"Rich! Everything in these two boxes has been sold, and I'm afraid I won't be able to make the price of this booth! A few years ago, Kazuki Takahashi, who also sold at Comicmarket and experienced those hard years, couldn't help but sigh.
"Fortunately, if all these things are sold, it shouldn't be a problem to earn back ten times the booth fee!" The weak boy said.
"And what do you have in here?" Kazuki Takahashi asked curiously.
"You'll find out when you put it on the table!" The weak boy said.
"Okay!" Takahashi and Nozomi opened the seal of the box and found that it contained a manga that had already been printed.
As a result, when Kazuki Takahashi saw the name of this comic, the whole person was stunned for a moment, and then sent the comic to Boss Jia.
"Boss, look at this comic!" Takahashi and Nozomi whispered, and Boss Jia glanced at it and was also stunned, because isn't this comic the "Sword Lady" that he was still searching for yesterday?
Look at the name of this comic author, it is called Emperor Jian Gufan, and the name of the cartoonist who submitted it.
"Boss, you are Emperor Sword Gufan!" Boss Jia asked in surprise.
"Of course, these are all drawn by me, and of course my name!" The weak boy nodded, thought for a while, and then said, "I almost forgot, I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Gu Fan, and I am currently a person who works hard with the goal of being a cartoonist!" ”
"Gu Fan, this name doesn't sound like the name of the Fusang people!" Boss Jia said with a smile in Chinese.
"Well, just like you, I'm from Huaxia!" Gu Fan nodded in acknowledgement.
"You can already see that I am from Huaxia!" Boss Jia was a little surprised, after all, Fusang and Huaxia people looked similar.
"The sword element on your body is different from other people, this is not the sword element that Fusang people can have!" Gu Fan said, "It's because you are from China that I asked you for help, after all, it feels more intimate!" ”
"What is a sword element?" Boss Jia was stunned for a moment.
"Ahem...... This is actually the setting in my comics.,Everyone has a sword element in their body.,Through the sword element, you can become a sword bearer.,Have your own sword girl! Gu Fan hurriedly explained.
"But where did the sword element come from in reality......" Boss Jia asked rhetorically.
"This ......" Gu Fan was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't know how to answer this question, but at this time, Kazuki Takahashi on the side followed, "This is normal, when I was a child, I often felt that my eyes could see the unusual power hidden in the air, especially in the second year of junior high school!" ”
Takahashi and Nozomi's complaints made Gu Fan's ears red again, hey, it seems to be an old middle school again, but this is also normal, people who are not middle two will not join the circle of anime.
"Okay, let's stop talking nonsense, we're going to open the door soon, let's hurry up and put all the goods on the table!" Boss Jia forked the way, and then began to put all the "Sword Lady" comics in the box on the table.
However, Gu Fan prepared too few comics, and the table was too big, and soon a box of comics was placed on the table, and he couldn't stand on the entire desktop.
So Boss Jia quickly opened another box, thinking that it was also containing the "Sword Lady" comics, but what Boss Jia didn't expect was that it was actually a booklet with a Chinese classical style.
And the booklet has such a name written on it: Xuantian Nine Swords.
Boss Jia remembers that according to the comic plot he saw roughly just now, Xuantian Jiujian seems to be the protagonist of the sword lady, and the supreme swordsmanship used by the flowing calendar.
Good guys, feelings are still the peripheral goods of "Sword Lady"!
[PS: I guess everyone saw this and thought they were going to start unfolding in the direction of fantasy. How to say it, Gu Fan's origin is indeed a bit mysterious, but this basically has nothing to do with the main plot.
Because Gu Fan is a character in the author's other book "Sword Lady", and readers who have been following the author know that each of the author's books, their worldview, is actually linked to a grander worldview.
Therefore, the appearance of Gufan here is just to pave the way for the entire big worldview, and to provide an interface for the future of "The Richest Man in Instant Noodles" and the rest of the author.
Well, it's about what a USB port looks like.
"The Richest Man in Instant Noodles" is still a light-hearted business text, and there will never be any fantasy battles in the future, or chaotic battles with abilities, or soaring into immortals, or plots such as fighting mysterious fantasy dark organizations, you can read it with confidence. 】