"Turn a deaf ear to the world outside the window, and concentrate on reading the books of sages" is a true portrayal of Le Jing now. No matter how much trouble there is outside because of his works in the past few days, it has nothing to do with Le Jing, a high school student with heavy academic workload and busy moving.
Following Zhou Dezhang's suggestion, Le Jing changed his name after recovering from his illness and went to Kaiming Middle School, where he officially became a student in Class 2 (1) of Senior High School. For the first time, he began to feel fortunate that the photos in the newspapers made him look so ugly, so he didn't need to disguise himself at all. No one would recognize him even if he stood there with his natural appearance.
Thanks to his usual cautiousness, he only had a single line of contact with Yang Jinglun in the Literary Newspaper. The only people in the entire newspaper who knew some of his real information were Yang Jinglun and the editor-in-chief. Both of them were tight-lipped. Therefore, during the days when he was in prison, there was a lot of ups and downs in the newspapers, but his real information was not revealed. In other words, the only information about the night watchman circulating outside was the photo that looked like a car accident scene. However, out of caution, Le Jing chose to study under a pseudonym. As for the new name, he was called Le Jing directly. Compared with the name Li Jingran, his original name naturally gave him a better sense of belonging.
As for moving, it was because his address was leaked by someone. Now every day some inexplicable people come to his door and block him, and he can't drive them away, which makes Le Jing very annoyed.
In this case, Le Jing decided to buy a house and move out from his landlord Qian Duofu. He had been writing in Beijing for more than half a year. Except for a few days when he was sick, he kept writing most of the time. The accumulated royalties were also a considerable amount. In addition, his two recent books were published, and a large amount of royalties came in, which was enough for him to buy a nice courtyard house in Beijing. You know, a certain literary giant bought a courtyard house with seven or eight rooms in Beijing, and it only cost 800 yuan.
So during the two weeks when the outside world was buzzing about "Memoirs of a Famous Courtesan", Le Jing bought a house, moved to a new place, and went to school. His life was extremely fulfilling.
This time his new book was released on Saturday, and Li Shuran, who had no classes, naturally dragged him out early to buy the book.
Le Jing reminded: "We have books given away by the publisher at home, so there is no need to buy any more."
Li Shuran replied without even turning her head: "That's different! I buy books to read myself and give as gifts, and the books at home are for collection."
Hey girl, do you know what your behavior is called in the future? It's called the author taking the lead in boosting sales. In the eyes of the spectators, this is a naked shady deal!
Before they even got to the bookstore, Le Jing was shocked by the long line at the door. Li Shuran was also anxious, so she quickly quickened her pace and ran to the end of the line. The brother and sister waited in line for a few minutes, and when it was finally their turn, the boss spread his hands helplessly and said to the guy in front of them, "I'm sorry, all the books of Night Watch are sold out. How about you take a look at other books? I have Mr. Wang's new book here."
The man said angrily, "Who wants to read Mr. Wang's books? I came here specifically to buy the Night Watchman's books! Boss, when will you get more books?"
The boss seemed to regret not buying more books on Night Watch. He promised again and again: "I will buy the books tomorrow!"
The man then left satisfied.
This scene was played out in front of many bookstores. Many bookstores sold out Le Jing's books. If you ask how Le Jing knew this, of course he saw it with his own eyes. Would Li Shuran, a stubborn girl, give up buying books just because one or two bookstores were out of stock? Of course not.
That day, Le Jing accompanied her to visit bookstores in most of the city of Peking, and finally bought ten sets of his books.
His two books, "Memoirs of a Famous Courtesan" and "Looking Down on People with Rat Eyes", were made into a set of three books by a shrewd publishing house and sold together. Many readers who came for "Memoirs of a Famous Courtesan" could only choose to buy the collection as a whole because bookstores did not sell it separately.
Li Shuran has clearly arranged the uses of these ten sets of books. "One set of books will be kept unopened for collection, one set of books will be used for reading, one set of books will be used for taking notes, and the remaining seven sets of books will be given as gifts." She said happily, "If they knew that the night watchman is my brother, they would definitely envy me."
Le Jing just smiled and said nothing. Li Shuran seemed to suddenly think of something and asked, "Brother, do you want to take a few sets of books to give to your classmates?"
"Forget it, they won't like this kind of book." If "The Rise of Dynasties" is published, giving it to classmates would be a good idea.
Le Jing still remembers the first day he joined the class. As soon as the get out of class was over, his male classmate asked him worriedly, "The army of the wild barbarians has already reached the city, the county magistrate has already abandoned the city and fled, and the general guarding the city is planning to lead the young men to surrender to the enemy. What should Xu Wangmu do?"
The person at the front table immediately came over with interest and discussed, "Doesn't Xu Wangmu still have tens of thousands of civilians under his command? They can defend the city instead of the garrison."
The person at the back table also joined the conversation: "The food in the city won't last for a few days! By then, the city will fall without a fight! And how can the unarmed, weak and kind people defeat the cold-blooded and cruel Yahu army?"
The female students couldn't help but interrupt, "The county magistrate and the garrison commander are such cowards! Dahua, which has chosen such people as officials, is really doomed to fail!"
"The nearby counties should send troops to reinforce us, right?"
"It's hard to say. Maybe the county magistrates of other counties are planning to use the lives and wealth of one city in exchange for the safety of other cities! And what if other wild barbarian armies attack their cities when they run to rescue? So they will most likely choose to retreat."
So the boys stared in amazement as these girls, who usually only knew how to put on makeup and dress up, skillfully discussed politics and military tactics. They sounded very knowledgeable and not much different from them.
Their gazes were so direct that one girl couldn't help but roll her eyes and yelled back, "Why, are you allowed to know so much?"
"I specifically listened to my father's analysis. My father is the Minister of the ** Department. He knows much more than you do!"
"Do you know how many books I have read? My brother has not read as many books as I have during this period!"
The boys begged for mercy repeatedly before the anger of these female soldiers was extinguished. Nowadays, the girls who can go to famous schools have good family backgrounds. These girls can be regarded as the top elite women in China. Their knowledge is not much worse than that of boys, but they have never had the opportunity to show it before.
Le Jing didn't expect that "Rise of Dynasties" would be so popular among students.
But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense.
In modern times, most of his female classmates like to read romance novels, while his male classmates like to read some refreshing novels. This was also the case in the Republic of China a hundred years ago. After all, compared to serious literature that requires brainpower, light-hearted and refreshing novels are naturally more popular among teenagers.
Le Jing felt that at times like this, he, as the author, needed to give some background information.
In the previous episodes of "The Rise of Dynasties", we talked about how Xu Wangmu connected tens of thousands of people from several nearby villages, organized them to reclaim wasteland, build canals, go hunting in the mountains, and brought public opinion (tens of thousands of refugees rebelled) to force county officials and local wealthy families to release grain for disaster relief, and then distributed food to the people according to the principle of distribution according to work. Although there was little food and many people were hungry every day, at least they could guarantee a few bites of food every day, and the dry fields were irrigated with water, and the vegetables planted also sprouted, so slowly the people had hope in their hearts and gradually restored the order of the past.
But Xu Wangmu knew that all this was only temporary. The edible wild vegetables and animals in the nearby mountains were limited. The young and strong men who came to the mountains to hunt in the past few days brought back fewer and fewer prey. He needed to find a new way to obtain food.
It is at this time that the cannon fodder Yahoo army, the captain who always sends equipment in the novels of Qidian Shuangwen, appears! Yahoo is the name given by the author of "Gulliver's Travels" to a kind of humanoid creature. Here, Le Jing uses this word to describe the enemy army in a funny way.
Facing the heated discussion, author Le Jing forcefully interrupted the conversation with the outline: "Tianyang City is in a state of panic right now. If Xu Wangmu stands up now, he can easily win the hearts of the people and seize a city as his initial base."
The male classmate asked, "What about the wild barbarians? How can Xu Wangmu repel tens of thousands of wild barbarians?"
Le Jing said honestly: "These tens of thousands of troops also include civilians responsible for logistics. The actual number of those who can fight is probably less than 10,000. It will not be difficult to repel them."
The next moment, countless eyes eager for knowledge turned to Le Jing, "So you have a solution?"
"Tell me now!"
"Stop keeping me in suspense!"
Le Jing cleared his throat and spread his hands, "I'm not the author, how would I know?"
For a certain shameless author, he was greeted with only the angry fists of the masses. However, Le Jing also successfully gained popularity in the Grade 2 (1) class with his "accurate interpretation" of the later plot of "Dynasty Rise", and was nicknamed "Le Banxian".
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