Chapter 2323 [Update 1]

Seventeen-year-old Jiang Bai is now 1.79 meters tall, with long arms and legs, a thin body, fair skin, and some subtle freckles on his cheeks. He has a baby face that is extremely inconsistent with his cold temperament, with round eyes, a straight nose, and a rosy cherry mouth. If it weren't for his height, short hair, and obvious Adam's apple, at first glance, he would have been mistaken for a beautiful girl.

Jiang Bai was annoyed by his own appearance.

Since he was an extra child, Jiang's mother concealed his gender from the moment he was born in order to have another daughter. She asked Jiang Song to call him "sister". After Jiang Ning was born, she also called him "sister" until Jiang Bai started school.

His gender was hidden so well that even his cousin's family and Grandma Jiang didn't know that Jiang Bai was actually a boy. When people suspected that his gender was a boy, his cousin made a bet with them: "She is my cousin, how could I not know whether she is a boy or a girl?"

Later, I was slapped in the face by reality.

However, this happened several years after he made the bet with someone, and because the slap in the face was so painful, the bet was often mentioned by his eldest cousin.

Jiang Bai was also an innocent little boy who loved to laugh when he was young. Perhaps because of the experience of being mistaken for a girl when he was young, Jiang Bai became serious and stern-faced after he knew he was a boy.

He didn't know how long he had been waiting at the school gate. When he saw Jiang Ning, there was no smile on his face. He just reached out and took the quilt, straw mat and bag from her hands: "Let's go, I'll take you to register."

The registration place is in the Academic Affairs Building. The downstairs are all offices of teachers of various subjects, the second floor is the principal and director's office, and the third floor is the computer room.

Since there were not many people who knew computers at that time, the computer room on the third floor was only opened occasionally. There was no internet access and only some very basic games. During normal classes, the room was used to give students typing practice.

After registering, I saw my assigned class, then went to the head teacher to queue up and get a receipt to go to the finance office to pay the tuition. Then I went to get books, bed sheets, quilt covers, toothbrush holder, washbasin and foot basin, and went to the dormitory building with Jiang Bai.

The dormitory building is mixed with men and women. Since there are fewer girls, the top two floors are all occupied by girls. There are two iron doors blocking the stairs. The four floors below are boys' dormitories. Usually, boys go through the left stair door and girls go through the right stair door, so they do not interfere with each other.

When Jiang Bai sent Jiang Ning to the fourth floor, he was stopped by the dormitory manager: "Boys are not allowed in the girls' dormitory!"

The dormitory manager had a bunch of keys on her waist and was sitting on a bamboo chair at the staircase connecting the fourth and fifth floors.

Jiang Ning hurriedly said, "Hello, Auntie. This is my brother, a senior student here. He has too much stuff. He will help me move it and will be down soon."

The dormitory aunt looked at Jiang Ning, whose hair was shaved in a mess, and then looked at Jiang Bai, who was tall, fair, and more delicate than a girl, and waved her hand: "Come down quickly!"

Jiang Ning quickly arrived at her assigned dormitory, 610.

She arrived relatively early. There were eight beds in the dormitory, and two of the lower bunks were already occupied. One bunk was not occupied, and the other was being made. When the couple who were making the bed saw her come in, they smiled warmly at Jiang Ning. Jiang Ning smiled back at them, and greeted the shy girl with big eyes standing there with a smile: "Hello, my name is Jiang Ning, from the third shift."

The girl nodded slightly and smiled, "My name is Xu Xiuli, and I'm also from Class 3."

"This is my brother Jiang Bai, he is also from our No. 1 Middle School, he is in his third year of high school."

Xu Xiuli only nodded slightly, but her father turned around, held Jiang Bai's hand and shook it vigorously: "Hello, hello, hello!"

Jiang Bai was still holding a bunch of Jiang Ning's things in his hands, and he almost dropped the thermos because of being shaken by Xu Xiuli's father.

Jiang Ning quickly put his things on a lower bunk near the window: "Second brother, here."

Jiang Bai hurried over with the things in his arms.

After that, he made the bed, hung up the mosquito net, spread out the mat, and placed the washbasin and footbath on the washstand. In addition, there was a cabinet with eight doors. Each door had an iron buckle, and he could buy a small lock to lock the door. At this time, the two cabinets in the middle were already full of things. Jiang Ning also chose a cabinet door in the middle and stuffed his things in it.

Jiang Ning lowered the mosquito net to ensure that no one would sit on her bed, then packed up her things, carrying rice and snail meat sauce and followed Jiang Bai downstairs.

When we were going downstairs, the dorm manager said, "Why did it take so long? Don't do it again next time!"

Jiang Ning smiled and thanked her: "Thank you, Auntie."

Jiang Bai silently took the rice bag from Jiang Ning. Jiang Ning handed Jiang Bai the 800 yuan that Jiang Ma gave her and the snail meat sauce she made: "This is your tuition and living expenses from your mother. Dad will send food to the school in two days. This is the snail meat sauce I made. You can eat it with rice."

She had no intention of going back, so she brought all the snail and clam meat sauce with her. These things don't last long, and if they are not eaten sooner, they will go bad later.

She brought two cans of clam meat sauce and two cans of snail meat sauce for Jiang Bai. Jiang Bai thought she was bringing pickles and carried them in a net bag.

Jiang Bai sent Jiang Ning to the canteen to weigh the food, and in exchange for ten kilograms of food coupons, Jiang Ning handed three kilograms to Jiang Bai: "Dad, give me back the food after you give it to you!"

The remaining seven kilograms of food would be enough for her to eat for a week without any extra dishes.

You can buy meals directly with money in the cafeteria. The amount of food bought with half a pound of food coupons is the same as that bought with fifty cents, but one dollar is more valuable than a pound of meal coupons. Therefore, except for the local day students in Wucheng, the students who were admitted from the lower towns and villages basically brought their own food to the cafeteria to exchange for food coupons.

Jiang Bai is entitled to 12 kilograms of food coupons per week, and almost 50 kilograms of food coupons per month. Jiang's father needs to pick up 200 kilograms of food for him at that time, and this does not include Jiang Ning's.

In her previous life, Jiang Ning was given 30 kilograms of food a month. Now she is starting school a year earlier than in her previous life, and her head teacher, teachers, and classmates are all different from those in her previous life.

Jiang Bai took the food coupons without saying much. His food coupons were almost gone. If Jiang's father didn't send more food over, he had planned to go back tomorrow morning and pick up the food himself.

The dormitory building for senior boys is not in the same area as those for freshmen and sophomores. Instead, it is in the staff dormitory area further ahead. As there are too many students, the dormitory building cannot accommodate them all, so a two-story row building behind the staff dormitory area was used as the dormitory area for senior boys. It is quiet there and more suitable for senior students.

Those who arrived earlier had dormitories to live in, but those who arrived later were full, so students had to find ways to rent houses near the school. Jiang Ning lived in a shared house outside the school in his previous life.

School will officially start the day after tomorrow. After Jiang Ning arranged her bed, she lay on it and continued writing her "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty". She had previously sent a 40,000-word manuscript to the "Wuxia" magazine, but had never received a reply. Now Jiang Ning has written more than 30,000 words here, and if there is still no news from there, she will submit to another magazine.

Little did they know that the "Wuxia" magazine was also worried because they couldn't get in touch with Jiang Ning.

The magazine "Wuxia" was founded in 1980. In the early 1980s, the first print run was one million copies. Until the serialization of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" became a hit, the highest monthly sales reached 3.5 million copies. The total print run reached more than 33 million copies within three years of its launch. It can be said that it was a glorious time. Until the middle and late stages, it still maintained a monthly sales of 2 million copies.

However, as martial arts novels by writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long became popular in the 1990s, more and more martial arts magazines hit the market. Coupled with personnel transfers within the magazine, by the early 1990s, the market for "Wuxia" was impacted by more and more magazines of the same type, and its market share inevitably declined. This year was the most difficult year for "Wuxia" magazine. Many editors of "Wuxia" magazine were transferred away, and the higher-ups were holding a meeting to discuss the dissolution of the Guangzhou branch of their magazine.

Only the editor-in-chief and the magazine's founder are still struggling to keep the magazine going.

Half a month ago, "Wuxia" magazine received another manuscript. This manuscript is different from the current best-selling martial arts novels. It is a detective mystery novel, while also taking into account the martial arts style. It also has a heroine perspective that is completely different from the current martial arts style.

When the editor first received the detective and mystery works, he was not very interested. However, the popular "Judge Bao" at that time made the editor stop and start reading "The Years I Was a Constable in the Song Dynasty" when he saw this new work.

Although the author of this work is unknown and not a veteran author of "Wuxia" magazine, his writing style is quite mature and he is very experienced in breaking up the chapters. Each chapter ends at a point that makes people unable to stop reading. When she finished reading the first 40,000 words, the case ended at the climax of revealing the truth. The editor was so anxious that she wished she could arrest the author of this work immediately and lock him up in a small dark room to write another 100,000 words!

She quickly handed the work to the founder of the magazine and showed it to him. The two of them unanimously decided to launch this work while "Justice Bao" was popular all over the country. At the same time, they sent someone to find the author of this work and asked him to quickly create the following content.

The magazine "Wuxia" is a weekly magazine. Since they received the manuscript, they have serialized it in two issues, each with 20,000 words.

The original monthly sales of the weekly "Wuxia" magazine was only 500,000 copies, and the sales were declining sharply. Unexpectedly, after this issue of the magazine was published, the sales reached nearly 500,000 copies in just one week. If it continues like this, it is only a matter of time before the monthly sales exceed one million. Many readers also wrote letters to scold the author for being a human being and stopping at such a critical place, and asked the magazine to quickly publish the next issue. They want to know the follow-up.

After the second issue of the magazine was published, the weekly sales increased by hundreds of thousands, because the author was even more cruel this time, and actually cut the plot off when the protagonist followed her father to unravel the case layer by layer, just one second before it was about to be solved. It was like a good man was about to be beheaded, and suddenly, Zhan Zhao rode on a horse with an imperial decree in his hand, shouting: "Spare his life!"

Card!

it's over!

The readers were so anxious that letters urging for updates and cursing the author and the magazine were sent to the magazine like snowflakes.

It was the first time for them to encounter such an inhumane person who interrupted the article. They didn't know whether it was the magazine or the author who was inhumane, but the readers scolded them as well.

Meanwhile, Editor-in-Chief Bao was already looking for Jiang Ning like crazy.

Jiang Ning has no phone number, email address, or MSN except an address.

At first, they just replied to the letter, asking the author to send the manuscript for the next issue as soon as possible. However, the letter fell into the sea and there was no response at all. After the first issue of the serial came out, they sent another letter to urge the author to submit the manuscript, but there was still no news.

"Has this Ning Meng not been found yet?"

The founder, Director Li Ang, was extremely anxious. Even Jiang Ning had not expected that in order to prevent Jiang's father and mother from knowing that she might make money by writing, she used the pen name Ning Meng in the letter.

The first time she went to the brigade headquarters to pick up the mail, the people there were busy and threw all the recently received letters to her, asking her to find them herself. Of course, she immediately found the letter addressed to Lemon, an author of Zhiyin magazine.

Due to the long distance, the letter from "Wuxia" arrived the next day after she received it. By then, she had already gone to school to register and asked Grandpa Jiang to keep an eye out. Grandpa Jiang went there several times and asked if there was any letter from Jiang Ning. The people in the brigade thought it was a letter from Jiang Ning, but of course there was none.

They found two letters with the name 'Ning Meng' on them. "Who is this Ning Meng? There is no one named Ning Meng in our village?" They all thought that the letters had been sent to the wrong person. When the postman came to deliver the letters again, the people from the brigade simply returned the two letters the same way they had come.

The people in the editorial department of "Wuxia" went crazy when they received these two returned letters.