How could she not be moved?
"Alright, alright, now you should get busy."
As he spoke, Jiang Mu gently patted Hu Tao's shoulder.
"You'll be very busy from now on..."
"I understand, don't worry!"
Hu Tao looked at Jiang Mu and said seriously.
I won't let you down.
"That's good."
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Mu said.
"I need to check on things at the newspaper office first, so I can't stay with you any longer, you..."
"Tch, I don't need you to keep me company."
Hu Tao waved his hand dismissively.
"Oh well……"
Jiang Mu nodded, turned around, and had only taken a few steps when he heard Hu Tao call out behind him.
"Ginger wood!"
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Mu turned around, puzzled.
"Thanks!"
Jiang Mu was slightly taken aback, then waved his hand.
"fine."
………………
When he arrived at the newspaper office, the manager saw Jiang Mu and quickly went up to greet him with a smile.
"Oh, what brings you here today?"
"What? I can't even come to my own newspaper office?"
Jiang Mu joked.
"Look at what you're saying..."
The newspaper's manager waved his hand, and his subordinates quickly brought over several cups of tea.
"To be honest, if you hadn't come, I would have had to find some time to come and see you."
"What, could it be that there's something wrong with the newspaper?"
Jiang Mu narrowed his eyes, his expression unfriendly.
"You could say that..."
The supervisor nodded and smiled wryly.
“Previously, following your suggestion, I created a section in the newspaper to publish some vernacular stories or novels written by scholars.”
At this point, the supervisor said with a wry smile.
"But recently, our newspaper's most famous writer suddenly stopped updating, and then a group of privileged young men came to cause trouble..."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Mu understood.
This group of people could be described as the richest group with nowhere to spend their money. They relied entirely on novels to relieve their boredom. Wanwen Collection Bookstore only updated its books once in a long while, so they turned their attention to the novels published in the newspaper.
However, the fact that the novel has stopped updating is almost a catastrophe for them...
"What did they do?"
Jiang Mu was also a bit troubled and asked.
"this……"
The supervisor hesitated for a moment, but after seeing Jiang Mu's eyes, he gave a wry smile and replied.
"They also know that we are backed by Lord Tianquan, so they don't dare to cause trouble. However, the two leaders, one named Bai Ye and the other named Pu Heng, did something. They bought some women's clothes and hung them on the outer wall of the newspaper office. They also... also released some inappropriate remarks."
"What remarks?"
Jiang Mu became curious.
"Uh... I remember they put up a big-character poster outside the newspaper office that said something like 'Bullshit Tsujino writes 4,000 words a day, short and weak.'"
"Huh? There's this part too?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Mu became interested and asked.
"Is there anything else?"
"Hmm, and there's also something like 'If you don't update, you'll have to crossdress'..."
Seeing Jiang Mu's smiling face suddenly turn into a strange expression, the supervisor couldn't help but smile wryly.
"Boss, these spoiled brats have made a mess of the whole newspaper office. Take their hanging of women's clothing, for example; they covered an entire wall with it. Then clothes were stolen, and that's when they finally calmed down..."
Wow, I was really impressed...
Jiang Mu thought for a moment, looked at the supervisor, and said.
"So, did you reveal the author's address?"
"Of course not..."
The supervisor waved his hand repeatedly.
"This is our newspaper's cash cow, we have to protect it well..."
"That's more like it..."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Mu nodded, thought for a moment, and then spoke.
“I have an idea. You go and buy a batch of high-quality wood... Don’t worry about wasting money, we’ll still make a profit in the end. I’ll give you some designs later. You can find a group of top woodcarving masters to carve them according to these designs. After that, you can display these woodcarvings outside the newspaper office. If anyone comes to urge you to update the chapter, you can introduce them to this ’chapter-urging gift’.”
"A gift to urge you to update?"
Upon hearing this, the supervisor also asked with some curiosity.
“Yes, let me think… um…”
As he spoke, Jiang Mu took out a blueprint stored in the system, spread it on the table, and pointed it at the main pipeline.
“Come and take a look. This is it. It’s called ‘Like and Get a Love Letter.’ It costs 100 Mora.”
"Then this thing called the update reminder charm costs 500 Mora."
"This character summon costs 1900 Mora."
"The main event is yet to come."
Seeing the shocked look in his supervisor's eyes, Jiang Mu smiled and continued.
"This gift, called 'Big Health Care,' costs 8,888 Mora each."
"The last gift, called 'Master Certification,' is priced at 99,999 Mora."
"But these prices are really a bit..."
As he spoke, the supervisor frowned.
"I'm worried about these readers..."
"Don't worry about that."
Jiang Mu waved his hand and said.
"Just tell them that after they buy a certain number of 'extra chapters' gifts, the author will update more chapters."
"But what about the author..."
"The newspaper split the profits with them."
"We'll split this gift 30/70."
"Three parts newspaper, seven parts author."
"Of course, authors who refuse to update will not receive this benefit."
"I believe that author wouldn't be so foolish as to refuse this extra income."
"Great idea!"
Upon hearing this, the supervisor nodded repeatedly.
"That's a good idea. I'll have people prepare it right away."
"Oh, right."
Suddenly, looking at the supervisor, Jiang Mu spoke.
"Put up a few more posters outside our newspaper office."
"What word?"
"Just say it."
Jiang Mu chuckled.
"As long as the donations keep coming, the author will be an inexhaustible ox!"
"And please, all you handsome readers, donate generously! The author's backlog of manuscripts is already piling up..."
"You're really pushing the author to the brink of ruin..."
The supervisor chuckled.
"There's nothing I can do..."
Jiang Mu shrugged.
"It's all because that guy keeps making noise, I can't stand it anymore..."
………………
After leaving the newspaper office, Jiang Mu finally couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.
"Author, oh author, please don't say I've wronged you."
"Isn't this a win-win situation?"
………………
Author's Note
Oh, I see.
We may have different understandings of what farming means.
People's idea of farming is probably just something as simple and straightforward as hoeing the ground.
My thoughts are somewhat different from everyone else's.
Liyue, or rather Teyvat, seems to me like a fertile, uncultivated land.
So, can bringing newspapers, insurance, and tipping services to this land be considered a form of "farming"?
However, since everyone's understanding of farming differs from mine, I will make corresponding adjustments to meet everyone's needs.
(Shamelessly asking for a gift?)
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