Chapter 155
Wu Gongan and his friends also saw the promotion on the cover of "Wuxia". After they got the latest issue of "Wuxia", they looked at each other in surprise.
They originally suspected Xiao Chen from the archives room, but now with the publicity from "Wuxia" magazine, their original suspect was overturned again.
College students who are admitted to college this year?
Wu Gongan and the others’ first reaction was that it was impossible. They still felt that the old Gongan wrote "The Song Dynasty" in the name of his own child. But "Wuxia" said that Ning Meng was admitted to Peking University?
Has any of their children been admitted to Peking University?
Wu Gongan's son is still in junior high school and has not yet entered high school, let alone taking the college entrance examination this year.
Who else? It's even more impossible for Xiao Chang, as he just found a partner and they are still dating but not married.
Old Liu?
When Old Liu saw Director Wu looking at him, he waved his hands quickly and said, "It's not me. If my daughter was admitted to Peking University, why would I be so low-key?"
Several people in the bureau analyzed the situation over and over again, but they couldn't find any of their familiar colleagues or any children in the same system who had been admitted to Peking University.
Chang Tongan analyzed, "Do you think it is possible that he did not use the ID card of his direct descendants to write "Da Song", but used the ID card of his nephew or niece?"
Director Wu and his colleagues’ minds were opened up again.
Last year, the netizen who said "If Ning Meng was a girl, he would eat shit upside down" also came out after being urged by netizens. However, he did not come out to live broadcast eating shit, but to have a big fight with netizens: "Wuxia only said that Ning Meng was admitted to Beijing University, and did not say that Ning Meng must be a girl. What makes you want me to live broadcast eating shit? In my opinion, Ning Meng is a boy, unless he comes out to prove it himself!"
Many readers who insisted that Ning Meng was a girl were almost pissed off by this netizen who "stood upside down and ate shit". They came out one after another and used various evidences to prove that Ning Meng was a girl. Unfortunately, all of them were just their speculations and indirect evidence and could not be used as direct evidence.
An online war centered on the question "Is Ning Meng a man or a woman? Should that netizen eat shit live on air?" has become the most lively and popular post on the forum this year. At the beginning, only readers of Ning Meng participated, but later it attracted a lot of non-Ning Meng fans to join in. They didn't care whether Ning Meng was a man or a woman, they just came in to have fun.
After watching this online war, many passers-by netizens who did not know the three books "The Song Dynasty", "White Snake" and "The Imperial Guards" were curious and searched for Ning Meng and her three works.
Many students from Peking University and Tsinghua University also surf the Internet. In fact, in this era, students from these universities are the most experienced netizens on the Internet. When these students, who had rarely read Ning Meng's works in the past, heard that Ning Meng was actually a junior from their class at Peking University, they were curious about what this junior had written. After learning about this new junior, many Peking University students went to buy her books and started reading her first book, "The Great Song Dynasty".
Since "The Great Song Dynasty" was too long, they mainly read it. They had not had time to read the second part "White Snake" and "Jinyiwei". They only read the first part of "White Snake" and "Jinyiwei" and joined the male and female competition in "Ningmeng".
They joined the side of "Ning Meng is a boy", which of course was seriously disputed by the side of "Ning Meng is a girl".
In addition, there was a netizen who put up a flag of eating shit while standing upside down. Later, the matter developed into an event for the whole nation to find Ning Meng. A large number of netizens who were admitted to universities in Beijing went to Peking University, and some who were Peking University students themselves also launched the "Search for Ning Meng" campaign.
Jiang Ning has been signing the words "Desire", "Immortality", "Desire" and "Death" at home these days. Except for two hours of typing every day, the rest of his time is spent on signing. He has no idea that he is "looking for Ning Meng" both online and in real life.
There were even campus reporters from some clubs at Beijing University who came to the school gate to interview new students who had just enrolled this year, asking them, "Excuse me, do you know Ningmeng?"
Unexpectedly, Ning Meng has such a large number of readers. Among the ten students interviewed, three or four knew Ning Meng. Even those who had not read her works knew her name.
"The bookstore at the entrance of our school often has posters of her books. Over time, although I have never read her works, I know that this author exists."
They are all top students from all over the country who have just been admitted to Peking University in their senior year of high school. Most of them focus on their studies. A small number of them have watched "The Song Dynasty" and "White Snake". Those who have not watched "The Song Dynasty" always watch "Justice Bao 2 and 3" during the winter and summer vacations.
The campus reporter took out the cover of the latest issue of "Wuxia" and asked the new students: "What do you think about Ning Meng being a freshman at Peking University?"
What do you think? Sit and watch?
The freshmen who were interviewed and didn't know Ningmeng were speechless and not very interested in this "Ningmeng".
The campus reporter added: "Wuxia Magazine exposed the fact that Ning Meng is a freshman at Peking University this year, and launched a 'Search for Ning Meng' campaign online. If you know who Ning Meng is in real life, are you willing to reveal his identity?"
Most of the people who were asked nodded and said "yes", and some people said that this was other people's privacy and they would respect other people's privacy.
"Whether or not to be exposed is up to Ning Meng himself. If he wants to be exposed, then he can be exposed. If he doesn't want to be exposed, no one can expose it for him, right?"
However, no one doubted whether this was Ning Meng's hype, and that Ning Meng had never been admitted to Peking University and was not a Peking University student.
First of all, "Wuxia" magazine is an old magazine. In the 1980s, it created the glory of being a top magazine in the industry. In the past two years, its sales volume has been far ahead of the country. It is also a career-based magazine. If a magazine of this size had not confirmed the true identity of "Ning Meng" and knew that he must be a freshman at Peking University this year, they would never make up such a ridiculous lie to promote "Ning Meng" and "Wuxia". Such publicity can only boost sales temporarily. Once the lie is exposed, "Wuxia" will become a laughing stock in the industry, and the credibility of the magazine will be greatly affected.
There is absolutely no need for them to tell lies that can be easily exposed just for the sake of a little immediate benefit.
Secondly, Ning Meng himself is an author in the industry whose total sales of a single work total nearly 10 million. The sales of his two books alone have already made him one of the best-selling authors. Judging from the quality of his new works, there is also very high quality. There is no need for him to tell such a lie, which will only ruin his own reputation.
Therefore, among readers and netizens, basically no one doubts that "Ningmeng" is indeed a freshman of this year's Peking University.
However, some experts have accused Ningmeng of ghostwriting.
The evidence is that, first, the sophisticated writing style and professional criminal investigation content of "The Great Song" made many public security officers within the system believe that Ning Meng must be a criminal investigation personnel within the system. They didn't believe that a high school student who was still in high school could write such a professional work.
Second, Ning Meng was admitted to Peking University this year, which means that the two articles, "The Great Song Dynasty" and "White Snake", were completed by him in his sophomore and junior years of high school.
Everyone who has been to the third year of high school knows how intense the academic workload is. Moreover, he was admitted to the University of Peking. Where did he get the energy and ability to write two high-quality novels of more than 1.8 million words on top of such a heavy workload?
Therefore, many netizens and experts speculated that the writer behind the pen name "Ning Meng" is actually an "old policeman within the system". There may be several reasons why he gave the pen name "Ning Meng" to a freshman at Peking University who is taking the college entrance examination this year.
First, it is still the issue of his identity as a police officer within the system. His identity makes him unsuitable to use his own identity as "Ning Meng".
Second, at the beginning, he may have used the ID card of his own children or younger generations to sign the contract.
Third, it is a question of exposure timing.
Previously, the identity of 'Ning Meng' had always been well hidden by "Wu Xia", so why did "Wu Xia" take the initiative to reveal the identity of 'Ning Meng' this time?
Experts and netizens analyzed that it is very likely that the younger generation of the old policeman who signed the ID card was really admitted to Peking University. "Wuxia" took advantage of the opportunity and used "Ning Meng was admitted to Peking University" as a publicity selling point to promote Ning Meng's new work "Jin Yi Wei".
Experts lamented: "From the current perspective, this promotional strategy is very successful. After the completion of White Snake, the sales of Wuxia had been declining. Even after two months, when Lemon Studios released a new work, it still failed to reverse its decline. Wuxia magazine came up with this promotional strategy."
"It has to be said that Wuxia and Lemon Meng have achieved mutual success. In 1993 and 1994, the sales of Wuxia dropped drastically. We in the north didn't even know about Wuxia magazine. But since Lemon Meng came out, Wuxia magazine, along with the magazine company, has suddenly occupied half of the magazine market!"
Many netizens and readers agree with the experts' statement.
But the host asked again: "What do you think about the fact that the protagonists in Ning Meng's works are all told from the perspective of the female protagonist? Regarding the question of 'Is Ning Meng a boy or a girl' that is currently hotly debated by netizens, do you think it is more likely that he is a boy or a girl?"
At the same time, experts in the industry said: "There is no point in arguing about this issue. Does it matter whether Ning Meng is a man or a woman? It doesn't matter. He can be a man or a woman." The expert smiled and said meaningfully: "If he wants to be a man, he can be a man. If he wants to be a woman, he can also be a woman."
This sentence actually means that no matter whether Ningmeng is a man or a woman, there must be a male author writing for "Ningmeng" behind the scenes.
This TV interview was recognized by a lot of viewers and Lemonmeng readers, but there were also a large number of readers who insisted that Lemonmeng was just a girl and felt that the logic didn't make sense.
Because of the way a person writes, it’s easy for a woman to pretend to be a man, but difficult for a man to pretend to be a woman because their perspectives are completely different.
The works written by the author Ning Meng, whether in terms of values or content, are full of respect and love for women, and have the flavor of a strong and independent heroine. Many readers find it hard to believe that these could have been written by a male author.
Some people even say that the pen name "Ning Meng" is not written by one person, but by a team, so his writing style is sometimes male and sometimes female.
Otherwise, how else can we explain how Ning Meng, a high school student with a busy schedule, could write more than 1.8 million words in two years? Every author who has ever written knows how difficult this is.
If they can write 3,000 words a day, it is already a very high efficiency. They often have to revise and re-transcribe the manuscripts. If they can produce 10,000 words a week, they are already very diligent and efficient authors.
"But look at Ning Meng? Since his work began to be serialized, he has been serializing more than 20,000 words every week without fail, and there has never been a gap in an issue. I would like to ask all the high school students, who can do this!"
"Can you do it? I can't do it anyway."
Song Peifeng also saw the interview with this "expert" and learned about the "Search for Lemon" campaign held by many "Lemon readers" at the gate of Peking University.
Returning to Jiang Ning's rental house, looking at her face full of numb expression as if she was living a life worse than death while signing, I felt funny in my heart. Besides feeling funny, I also developed a deep admiration and respect for her.
Others may not know, but Song Peifeng, who had been with Jiang Ning in the training team for nearly a year, knew it very well.
There was no team or hired guns behind the more than 1.8 million words she wrote over the past two years. She typed them all out word by word herself.
He had heard about her story. Ever since she started military training at No. 1 Middle School, she would lock herself in a mosquito net and write something when others were resting. Everyone thought she was studying, but school hadn't started yet. Song Peifeng guessed that she was writing at that time.
Although he didn't know that she was in the Internet cafe at No. 1 Middle School, he had seen her writing in the Internet cafe with his own eyes. That was when she was in the training team and the social atmosphere was at its most chaotic during the crackdown period. It was so late, and she was still writing in the Internet cafe.
In addition to what he had seen during this period, he had never asked her specifically about her typing speed, but seeing that she didn't even need to look at the keyboard, typing completely blindly, with her fingers leaving afterimages on the keyboard, he could judge her approximate speed.
If she could write at 3,000 mph, she would only need to spend an hour a day writing. If she could write at a higher speed, it would take even less time.
Take himself as an example. He spends more than an hour every day on extracurricular books. If he had the time to complete the more than 1.8 million words that others say is impossible to complete.
What impressed him was her strong learning ability and self-control.
Not everyone can persist in writing and achieve such high quality while studying so intensively.
After knowing that Jiang Ning's pen name was 'Ning Meng', he bought the complete set of "The Great Song Dynasty" and "White Snake's Cultivation of Immortality" and read her words carefully to understand her inner thoughts.
In both works, there are very few descriptions of emotions. No matter it is "The Great Song" which is set in the feudal dynasty, or "White Snake" which comes from the world of cultivating immortals, in the settings of these two works, the heroine's energy is not on emotions, but on her career. The CP of the heroine and Zhan Zhao that readers think of is also shown in the TV series "Justice Bao 2 and 3". In fact, in the work "The Great Song", the heroine is engaged in her career throughout the whole process.
This is also why this book, written from a female perspective, still has so many male readers.
This is a career article that male readers can completely relate to. If the heroine was really involved in some love affair, the readership might not be so large.
There is no need to mention "White Snake". The world of immortal cultivation set in this article is a world where strength is respected and the weak are preyed upon by the strong. In this world, there is no such thing as male superiority and female inferiority. Everything is determined by strength.
Among the powerful humans, strong men have women clinging to them, and strong women also have countless male favorites.
The demon tribes in the Ten Thousand Mountains that she wrote about vividly depict the wildness and natural laws of nature. All female demon cultivators and monsters choose males with stronger bloodlines, who are more likely to give birth to offspring with stronger bloodlines and who can better ensure their own survival and reproduction.
Those ordinary beasts, or demon cultivators and monsters with low cultivation levels, can only find female demon cultivators and monsters with lower bloodlines and cultivation levels than them to reproduce.
The world of cultivating immortals is so direct and cruel.
From beginning to end, the little white snake only had the great truth in her heart, such as repaying the kindness to Xu Xian and devoting herself to him. Through the characters she created, her true thoughts on love and career can also be reflected.
There is only the Tao in her heart.
From this, we can also see that Jiang Ning feels the same way.
In her third work, "The Commander of the Imperial Guards", many readers were speculating whether the commander's future male protagonist would be the crown prince, and whether the heroine would enter the crown prince's harem in the future. Even if she did not enter the harem, she would be with the crown prince and become his true love.
After all, as far as the current plot is concerned, the heroine has become good friends with the Crown Prince and has been improving his physique.
This is almost the idea of most readers, especially in this era, which is deeply influenced by Aunt Qiong Yao's literary works. Many people's minds are full of love. The broadcast of TV series such as "Princess Xinyue" and "Dream of the Red Chamber" has a great influence on the love views of many people of this era.
At present, Jiang Ning has not written the later part of the story. The heroine is currently only serving as the Crown Prince's companion. She is using the essence of moonlight to cure the Crown Prince's innate deficiencies, the Crown Prince's hidden injuries, and the illness of the Crown Princess. The purpose of her doing all this is clearly written in the text. It is because she becomes the Crown Prince's companion. The heroine's family is tied to the Crown Prince's warship, and they must follow the Crown Prince to win.
This is from a political perspective. She needs a living prince and princess, and she needs a long-lived crown prince.
After that, she devoted herself to practicing martial arts, and practiced martial arts with her maids, servants, mother, and wet nurses. Her mind was full of career, without any ambiguity. She even wanted to practice martial arts with the crown prince, hoping that he would be healthy and live a long life, so that she could continue to hold on to the tallest and thickest thigh in the future.
Through her writings and her works, Song Peifeng seems to see into her heart.
She is a girl who is strong inside, has outstanding pursuit of career, and will never stop because of love or family.
Song Peifeng didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and even all the women in his family were the same.
None of his mother, his grandmother, his grandmother-in-law, his aunt, and his aunt-in-law were trapped in the family. They all had their own careers for which they fought all their lives.
In his circle, there are a large number of outstanding women who have dedicated their lives to the motherland. He grew up watching such women and surrounded by such women.
He was just happy that the girl he liked was even better than he had imagined, a soul that glowed even in the dark.
He was also delighted that through these words, he had a deeper understanding of her inner world.
The Internet is updated in real time every day: Have you found 'Ning Meng' today?
There were also readers in Beijing who held up a tall sign at the gate of Peking University, which read: Looking for Ning Meng.
They thought that if they did this, Ning Meng would come out when she saw the sign.
Even the teachers and professors of Kyoto University have seen this "Looking for Lemon" activity. They are also happy to see that Kyoto University has such a best-selling author who has already become a tens of millions-level book seller before entering university as a freshman alumnus.
However, there are so many celebrities in Peking University that Ning Meng is not worth their attention. What they care more about is Jiang Ning, who won the gold medal with a full score in the IMO competition this year, and several other freshmen.
Among these freshmen, four are seniors of high school, and this is the class of freshmen who will start the school year. There are also two sophomores, one of whom was signed by Tsinghua University and the other by Peking University.
Among the dozens of people who have signed up for the winter camp, only half have confirmed that they will come to audit the class in advance, and the other half have chosen to stay in their original high schools to continue learning high school knowledge, consolidate their high school knowledge, and lay a solid foundation.
After Jiang Ning signed all the signature pages and mailed them away, the new semester at Peking University began. Although she was not a freshman this year, as an auditor, she had to complete all the necessary procedures.
It was when Jiang Ning came out to handle the formalities for auditing that she discovered a large group of young people gathered at the gate of Peking University, holding signs that read "Looking for Ning Meng". She turned her head and looked curiously twice, as if the person written on the sign was not her at all, and then walked into the Peking University campus without looking around.
After everything was settled, she and Song Peifeng no longer needed to attend military training, so they had some free time. She called Grandpa Jiang's shop and told him her current landline number.
Grandpa Jiang was not very good at writing. Even Arabic numerals were written very awkwardly. As he was old and his eyesight had deteriorated, every number he wrote was particularly large.
She guessed that No. 1 Middle School had also started school, so she called the school again and told Teacher Wang that she was currently an auditor at Peking University. She also told Teacher Wang her current fixed phone number and asked Teacher Wang to tell He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli.
Her two best friends in her previous life were both her leaders. She cherishes the fact that she has two such people who are willing to be her friends in this life.
Xu Xiuli received Jiang Ning's latest contact information from Teacher Wang, and a proud smile appeared on her lips. She said to He Xiaofang, "I thought she had forgotten me. Fortunately, she still remembers me."
He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli are not in the same class now, but they are in the same dormitory.
She was also very surprised, her mouth stretched to the back of her ears from laughing, her long black eyelashes like raven feathers curved into a crescent shape, looking particularly naive.
Ever since Jiang Ning joined the training team, they rarely got together, which made her very disappointed. In addition, Jiang Ning was like a soaring eagle, the higher he flew, the farther away he was from her. She thought Jiang Ning had forgotten her.
Now in her third year of high school, she has devoted all her energy to studying. Although it is difficult, she no longer has physics and chemistry to hold her back. She tries her best and her grades are relatively stable.
With the large pile of books left by Jiang Ning, the book rental business is not as good as before, but Liu Ping is a business talent. Since there is no market for the second and third year students, she has expanded the book rental business to the freshmen of this year's first year.
The income from renting books is still used as a weekly snack of braised pork for dormitory 610. Although Jiang Ning is not here, the money is supervised by Lu Xuehua and managed by Wang Xia. With the other people in the dormitory also acting as supervisors, every penny is turned into braised pork and eaten by them, just like when Jiang Ning was here.
Because of what Jiang Ning left behind, He Xiaofang not only had a good relationship with her roommates, but also her nutritional needs were not as poor as Jiang Ning's in her previous life.
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