Chapter 3535 [Update 1]

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief: "Damn, I'm definitely not awake yet!"

He slowly lowered his head and buried his face in his arms. Then he couldn't help but turn his face over little by little, resting it on his arms, and quietly looked at the computer screen next to him.

Because of the sideways angle, the light on the computer screen prevented him from clearly seeing what Jiang Wei was writing. It all seemed to have become an illusion in his imagination.

After watching, he finally couldn't resist the sleepiness of the all-nighter, and fell asleep again unknowingly to the rhythmic keyboard tapping.

Two hours passed unknowingly, and during this time, some people came to the Internet one after another.

Around nine o'clock, the Internet cafe was full again. Students, social people, hooligans, and all kinds of people gathered in this fashionable and avant-garde place for today's young people. In

the entire Internet cafe, Jiang Wei was the only person from key high schools such as Wuzhong and No. 1 Middle School. Because it was the weekend, she did not wear a school uniform, but her presence with Wang Yong still attracted some people's attention.

In addition, she was a little kid surfing the Internet, her hands were still clacking, and there was a person sitting next to her who was like a follower. Many people were curious about their relationship. They said they were a couple... Tsk, who would like a person who was neither male nor female with a short haircut and looked underdeveloped?

If we talk about brother and sister, the young man was a little too attentive to the dwarf. He even helped her to remove the cap of the soda bottle and put it next to her, as if to say "Thank you for your hard work in writing" as he prepared to feed her.

What made them even more unhappy was that the boy was dressed quite fashionably.

At that time, most of the clothes here were still imported from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou. For Wang Yong, who came from Guangzhou, the normal clothes he bought there became a unique and bright feature of this undeveloped ancient town when he came to this small county town.

The eyes that were either looking at or scrutinizing him made Wang Yong, who had always been a good student, feel a little uncomfortable. He wanted to shrink next to Teacher Xingmeng, but he was a boy and Teacher Xingmeng was just a little girl under fourteen years old. Naturally, he had no intention of asking Teacher Xingmeng to protect him.

He waited until Jiang Xi had finished writing for two hours and almost finished four chapters. When Jiang Xi twisted his neck to stretch his muscles, he carefully handed him a bottle of soda: "Teacher Xingmeng, you have also written four chapters. Do you want to take a break?" He asked, "Have you finished your homework?"

Jiang Xi: ... Jiang Xi glanced at him and said, "I wrote a chapter here last night. I came here early this morning to write. What do you think?" Wang Yong carefully said, "I have finished

writing a chapter here last night. I have come here to write early this morning. What do you think?"

He looked around at the people who were looking at him from time to time, and whispered in his characteristic broad voice: "You have written so much, enough, it's getting late now, as students, we should still focus on studying, what do you think?"

God knows, when he knew that Teacher Meng wrote so fast and efficiently, he really wanted to stick Teacher Meng to the computer with super glue and continue typing.

If every author had the speed of Teacher Meng, why would they be afraid of magazines having gaps? A whole issue of the manuscript can be completed in one day!

Mom doesn't have to worry about my studies anymore!

Pah! The director doesn't have to worry about "Da Song" having gaps anymore!

Jiang Xi did not reject his proposal. He saved the four new chapters and sent them to the submission mailbox of "Wu Xia" by email.

The 28,000 words accumulated during this period, plus today's 12,000 words, there are another 40,000 words of manuscripts!

Most people in the Internet cafe just play games by themselves and don't care about other people's business, but some people watched the backs of the two people leaving the Internet cafe and couldn't help but whisper to their companions: "Where did that man come from? He's dressed like a peacock spreading his tail."

It was Wang Yong who was obediently around the short man and didn't flirt with him, otherwise he would have to teach him a lesson.

"Play games, play games." Soon, their attention was focused on the most popular games on the streets.

The next day, at the same time, Jiang Xi and Wang Yong came to the Internet cafe again and wrote a 12,000-word manuscript. They left at the appointed time without staying for a second longer.

Wang Yong and Jiang Xi also looked straight ahead and did not have any conflicts with others.

Now Jiang Xi has accumulated a total of 52,000 words in stock. With the 55,000 words he sent before, the stock of "Wu Xia" now has a total of 107,000 words, which can allow "Wu Xia" to be serialized for five issues. Five issues means five weeks, one month and seven days. Even if the mail is as slow as a snail now, it is enough for "Wu Xia" to have plenty of time to wait for Xi Meng's manuscript. Moreover, now there is an email, unlike before when it took a lot of time to wait for the mail on the road, it can arrive in real time.

Especially the typing speed of Teacher Xi Meng made Wang Yong feel more at ease.

After he told Director Li the news, Director Li was also overjoyed, thinking that Wang Yong could end his business trip and return to Guangzhou.

Wang Yong told Director Li hesitantly about the chaos in the Internet cafes in Wucheng: "It's too unsafe for Teacher Meng, a girl, to go to Internet cafes. I'm afraid some rascals will bully her."

In fact, it's not just Wucheng. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are even more chaotic than Wucheng, especially in places like train stations. There are so many thieves that it affects local security. Various fights for resources are not uncommon. The initial accumulation of capital there was all fought for in the most primitive and barbaric way.

If you don't fight, others will naturally come to grab yours.

Although Li Ang and those people were not in the same field, even a purely literary job like founding a magazine could not avoid all kinds of bloody struggles such as undercover and poaching. He almost destroyed the "Martial Arts" magazine. Coupled with the increasingly intense trend of quitting jobs in recent years, how could he not know about the chaos in Wucheng that Wang Yong mentioned?

After thinking about it, he said, "Then you will stay in Wucheng for the time being and be responsible for Teacher Meng's manuscript. Meng is a little girl studying outside. If there are any inconveniences in her life, you should take care of her. You are very thoughtful this time." Director Li praised, "I will reassign people to take charge of other authors."

Wang Yong had no reason to refuse.

For him, one Meng was enough to match several new authors who had not yet come out.

Meng's manuscript was stable, and Director Li was in a state of excitement during this period.

The weekly sales of the fourth issue have been released. The first print run of one million copies has been absorbed by the markets radiated by the three branches in Nanshi, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Director Li, who has more ambitions, wants to take advantage of the popularity of "Da Song" to open another branch in Jinshi and further expand the influence of "Wu Xia" magazine to the north.

This is not easy.

Because there are many magazines in Jinshi with extremely high market share. Some magazines are even not much worse than the most glorious period of "Wu Xia" which is about to be cancelled, and they will continue to be glorious in the future.

Therefore, if "Wuxia" wants to bypass the local bigwigs in Jinshi and enter the Beidi market, it also needs to see whether the local magazines in Jinshi agree.

But Beidi is indeed a huge market.

The good thing is that although there are many famous magazines in Jinshi, in the field of martial arts, none can compete with the current popularity of "Wuxia", which is why he chose to enter Beidi now.

Now it is the fifth issue of "Da Song". Director Li has enough manuscripts in stock, so he serialized seven chapters at a time, which is more than 21,000 words. Taking advantage of the momentum of "Judge Bao" not being taken off the air, it will be much easier to enter the Beidi market at this time than at any other time.

He thought about it and called the editor-in-chief of a publishing house he knew.

Jiang Qi was stunned when she heard Wang Yong say that Wuxia Magazine wanted to represent her publishing rights and publish Da Song.

Didn't they just finish serializing four issues and prepare for the fifth issue? Why is it suddenly going to be published?

This is a very normal thing after the millennium. Many authors first serialize their works in magazines, and then publish them when they have good results.

Some authors directly sign a publishing contract, and then serialize them in the magazines under the publishing house to warm up and promote them. After the magazine has been serialized for a few issues and readers are itching to read it, they will launch a complete publication in one go, or divide it into upper and lower volumes, or upper, middle and lower volumes. This kind of publication has a very good publicity effect.

Director Li was also like this at that time.

"Da Song" has been serialized for four issues, and tomorrow is the fifth issue. According to his serialization volume of 20,000 words per issue, plus the fifth issue that will be released tomorrow, "Da Song" has serialized a total of 120,000 words.

If "Wu Xia" wants to enter the northern market, it must not start from the first issue of "Da Song" serialized in "Wu Xia". Without the warm-up of the previous issues, readers will directly enter the sixth issue of "Da Song", or even the seventh and eighth issues of serialization. There is no beginning or end, and the market response will definitely not be good.

Moreover, it will take time for "Wu Xia" to enter the northern market.

So he thought of cooperating with the publishing house to divide "Da Song" into the first, second, and third volumes according to the number of words, just like the works of Jin Yong, Gu Long, Wen Ruian and others in the current market, which can be divided into multiple volumes, each with 150,000 words. Then, "Da Song" will be sent to Beidi through the channels of the publishing house, and then the magazine "Wu Xia" will follow closely. After people who have read the first volume of "Da Song" have no more content, they will naturally go to the publishing house to inquire about the subsequent content. At this time, "Wu Xia" can take the opportunity to enter the Beidi market. As for whether it can grab a market share in Beidi in the future, it depends on the content output of the subsequent "Wu Xia" magazine.

At any time, high-quality content is the kingly way for a magazine to survive.

With the current total monthly sales of more than 3 million copies of "Wu Xia", many publishing houses want to obtain the publishing rights of "Da Song". What Director Li has to do is to select the publishing house with the best Beidi market channels and the most conducive to "Wu Xia" entering the Beidi market from these publishing houses.

This was not difficult for him, who was in the publishing system.

Jiang Qi was surprised that a publishing house had signed a contract to publish "The Great Song" so quickly.

"Our director personally found the publishing house for you." Wang Yong pushed his glasses on his nose and said, "Only publish the serialized part, the first volume. Director Li has already negotiated the contract for you. Take a look."

At present, Director Li sent him only an electronic version of the contract, or in other words, it was not a contract at all. There were only some general terms, and the main thing was the publisher's quotation. The formal contract had to wait for the publisher to send it over. The specific details would be discussed with the publisher after the contract arrived.

Because of the popularity of "The Great Song", the publisher offered a price of 9% for the first print of 100,000, and a one point increase for every additional print of 100,000.

The price was very generous.

Director Li's main purpose in finding a publisher for her was to open up the northern market, so he only charged her a symbolic agency fee.

At this time, due to the increase in the total monthly sales of "Wu Xia", the printing factory that cooperated with "Wu Xia" was also working overtime to print.

As a printing factory with a deep cooperation with "Wu Xia", after entering the 1990s, the decline of "Wu Xia" also caused a sharp drop in the printing factory's orders. Although it did not face bankruptcy like other factories, it was still difficult to maintain.

The popularity of "Da Song" not only made "Wuxia" magazine revive overnight, but also brought many orders to the printing factory. Not to mention other things, the total printing volume of "Wuxia" magazine alone in their printing factory last month reached more than 3 million copies. This has greatly eased the current financial situation of the printing factory. Many wages that had not been paid before have also been paid, and the workers in the printing factory are also very happy.

The hot sales of "Wuxia" and the popularity of "Da Song" and "Judge Bao" have also set off a craze for criminal investigation, which has inspired many authors who are interested in criminal investigation to write criminal investigation novels. It has also caused magazines of the same type as "Wuxia" to leave notices in the solicitation section for criminal investigation manuscripts, and some magazines have even started to follow suit. Many

authors know that with the current popularity of "Da Song" in "Wuxia", other manuscripts of the same type will definitely be overshadowed by "Da Song" if they are submitted to "Wuxia", so they rarely submit to "Wuxia".

"Da Song" is the work that "Wu Xia" is currently promoting. Whether it is from the strength of publicity, the cover, or the position on the inside pages of "Wu Xia" magazine, it is undoubtedly the best. Director Li wants to take advantage of the current popularity of "Da Song" to make "Da Song" another signature masterpiece of "Wu Xia", so that people will think of "Wu Xia" when they see "Da Song" in the future, and think of "Wu Xia" when they see "Wu Xia", and deeply bind the two together, complement each other, and achieve each other.

This is a win-win situation. Jiang Xi will not care about how "Wu Xia" magazine promotes it. She only submits the manuscript regularly and does not delay her own royalties.

Because there has been no news from "Story Club", she has revised the manuscript that she sent to "Story Club" before, changed the name, and sent it to "Zhiyin".

This was the third article she had sent to Zhiyin. During

this period, she also sent one article to Reader and Youth Digest. She spent almost all of her remaining time reviewing her high school textbooks.

She was never a smart and witty person. In fact, because of the deep-rooted oppression from childhood to adulthood, she felt from the bottom of her heart that she was a "stupid" person. She was not quick-witted enough and lacked quick wit in daily life. The only thing she had was to work harder than ordinary people. She

went to bed on time at 10:30 every night and got up at 5 in the morning. She would recite the content she had memorized yesterday while running to deepen her impression. She would read the new content after reading it in the morning.

For her, learning liberal arts subjects, whether Chinese, history, or politics, was effortless, both in terms of memory and comprehension. Her many years of working and learning experience within the system enabled her to learn politics and history with twice the result with half the effort. Moreover, she was already very interested in Chinese, politics, and history. While others viewed these three courses as studying, she was simply enjoying them.

Especially for history, you will find many interesting things and interesting people in history books, which makes her unable to help but go to the library to look up more historical data, learn history more deeply, and understand the political background and political significance behind historical events.

Political history has always been connected.

If Jiang Xi completely enjoys Chinese, politics, and history, then English is a language that she has already mastered completely. She still focuses on mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

It must be admitted that her talent for physics and chemistry is really limited. Even if she can make up for some of the gap through hard work, and make her look better than most of the classmates in the class, only she herself understands that she has only learned the superficial content taught by the teacher. It is impossible for her to learn in depth like learning Chinese, politics, and history. She

is a little better at math. She thinks math is not that difficult to learn. At the same time, math does not make her feel "easy". It is also a subject that requires her to spend a lot of energy to study hard to get good grades.

In her previous life, she studied liberal arts and spent a lot of energy to improve her math and English grades. She finally made a breakthrough in the college entrance examination and got the best score she had ever taken in high school, becoming a lucky person in the eyes of others.

Maybe she had already learned high school math in her previous life. Even though many years had passed, most of the math knowledge she had learned in high school had been forgotten and returned to the teacher. But after all, she had learned it. When she tried it again, Jiang Xi obviously felt that it was much easier to learn. The knowledge points that she had to spend a lot of time to practice repeatedly before she could master them now seemed to be easily mastered and her understanding deepened.

Jiang Xi understood that she was not getting smarter, but as she relearned the high school knowledge, the memories hidden deep in her mind were being dug out bit by bit.

I don't know if it was the braised pork that Jiang Wu shared with He Xiaofang that day, or the fact that neither of them went home on the weekend, that made He Xiaofang suddenly feel close to Jiang Wu. Specifically, when He Xiaofang saw Jiang Wu going for a run in the morning, she would get up early and go for a run with him. When Jiang Wu went to fetch water, she would go with him. When Jiang Wu went to get food, she would let Jiang Wu sit down, holding her enamel pot, and said actively and enthusiastically: "You sit here, I'll help you get it!"

As if she was afraid that Jiang Wu would refuse, there was a hint of uneasiness in her expression, and as she spoke, her thick ponytail swung half a circle, quite vigorously.

Jiang Xi thought she was cute, so she smiled and said, "That won't do. The serving lady likes me!"

He Xiaofang thought of the red-roasted pork that was packed tightly in Jiang Xi's enamel pot that night, and her eyes lit up with envy. She also thought Jiang Xi was particularly cute.

After dinner, she had to wash Jiang Xi's rice pot again.

Jiang Xi dodged her outstretched hand. She looked quite lost and followed Jiang Xi. When they walked to the sink to wash the rice bowl, she asked Jiang Xi sadly: "Jiang Xi, do you dislike me?" Jiang Xi

was surprised: "How could that be? I like you very much and think you are very cute."

"Really?" She, who had just been bowing her head and looking depressed, suddenly stood up with her eyes bright and amazing.

She had thick hair and thick black eyebrows. Her eyes were black and white, and all her emotions were expressed directly on her face.

"Really, I like you very much." After a pause, Jiang Xi said sincerely: "Besides, you are very beautiful."

He Xiaofang's dark face suddenly blushed and she bowed her head shyly. No one had ever said that she was beautiful. Everyone called her Heidan.

She didn't quite believe what Jiang Xi said, that she was very beautiful, but Jiang Xi's sincere eyes told her that she was really beautiful in his eyes. She

was obviously three years older than Jiang Xi and more than half a head taller than Jiang Xi, but she followed Jiang Xi like a shy little wife, walked to the place where water was drawn, and hurriedly picked up Jiang Xi's water bottle: "There are many people in there, you wait here for me, I'll go in to get water!" She said, carrying two hot water bottles, and squeezed in with a grunt.

After coming out, Jiang Xi wanted to take the water bottle in her hand, but she didn't let Jiang Xi take it, "It's okay, I can carry it!" She said, grunting and carrying two hot water bottles, and climbed up to the sixth floor in one breath, even the ends of her hair in her ponytail were flying with a happy arc.

Seeing Jiang Xi take out his math book and do exercises, she also did math. Seeing Jiang Xi get out of bed to drink water, she also wanted to drink water.

She moved so much that the entire bed seemed to tremble when she moved. Jiang Xi saw this and poured her a cup.

She held the enamel cup, lowered her head, her face full of shy joy, and she couldn't help but look up at Jiang Xi. Seeing Jiang Xi studying, she also calmed down and read.

On Sunday afternoon, the roommates of dormitory 610 came back one after another. When they returned to the dormitory, they saw the two test takers reading. They were embarrassed to disturb them. Thinking of the monthly exam soon, they put down their luggage and gently picked up the books to read.

By the evening, Xu Xiuli also came back.

Jiang Ning put down her book, stretched her neck, stood in front of the bed and stretched the railing of the upper bunk, then walked to the balcony and looked down. Under the setting sun, she turned back and smiled at Xu Xiuli: "You're back?"

Xu Xiuli bent her eyes, took out a bag of spiced broad beans from her bag, handed it to Jiang Ning, and asked Jiang Ning to share it with everyone: "My mother made it, you can try it."

She spoke softly, always with a hint of coquettishness.

Jiang Ning was not polite. She immediately took one and put it in her mouth. Then she handed the opened bag to other people in the dormitory. The first one she handed to was of course the bottom bunk closest to her, which was near the balcony, and then to He Xiaofang, who was on the upper bunk.

Seeing that she was the first to pass it to her, He Xiaofang happily took a silk bean and tasted it, and then invited Jiang Xiaofang: "Xingxiao, do you want to go downstairs to eat?"

She blinked her dark puppy eyes, as if she was afraid of being rejected, and her eyes hid expectations that she herself might not even notice.

Jiang Xiaofang was stunned for a moment, lowered her eyelids, ate the silk bean, and raised her head and nodded at her with a smile: "Okay." Then she called the rest of the dormitory, "Are you going to eat?"

So a group of girls came together, some carrying water bottles, some carrying vegetable bottles, and went to the cafeteria in the next building together.

Since the beginning of the school year, Xu Xiuli has gotten used to being with Jiang Xi, and naturally walks beside him. He Xiaofang also quickly walks over and sits on the other side of Jiang Xi.

Because they have to attend evening self-study classes in the evening, the students who went home on weekends have basically all returned to school, and the cafeteria is very lively.

He Xiaofang saw an empty table, and she took two steps in three steps, and took one of the empty tables in one go. She took an empty seat and waved to Jiang Xi excitedly: "Xixi! Xixi! Come and sit here!"

One seat can accommodate four people, and if you squeeze together, you can sit up to six people.

There are eight people in their dormitory, so they naturally cannot sit at the same table, so they naturally split into two tables. Xu Xiuli naturally sat with Jiang Xi and the others.

As soon as Jiang Xi sat down, He Xiaofang took Jiang Xi's rice bowl and said, "You stay here and watch the seat. I'll go get the rice!" Then she ran to line up excitedly.

Xu Xiuli looked at He Xiaofang who was running to line up, and then looked at Jiang Xi, with a puzzled look on her face: "Do I still need to watch the seat?"

Generally, when people see that this seat is filled with several vegetable bottles brought from home by others, they know that this seat is already occupied, and they will consciously find another seat. It is rare to meet such a domineering person who will occupy the table even though he knows that someone is sitting at the table.

Jiang Xi smiled and stood up, asked He Xiaofang for his own enamel bowl, and went to line up at the braised pork window.

Coincidentally, the person who was getting food at the braised pork window today was still Teacher Liu's lover.

Teacher Liu's lover actually forgot what Jiang Xi looked like, but Jiang Xi's call of "sister" reminded her of her immediately, and she immediately scooped a large spoonful of braised pork for Jiang Xi with a smile on her face, and even added three or four pieces of it as it was not enough.

"Thank you, sister." Jiang Xi was holding the rice bowl, and before she left the food window, she heard a duck voice coming from above her head: "Auntie, one serving of braised pork."