Qiu San Niang nodded: "It's the whale you know."
Zuo Miaomiao quickly regained her composure and exclaimed in amazement, "This is too shocking! Sister Qiu, your experience is so legendary, you must publish a book about it!"
Qiu Sanniang laughed heartily: "I don't even know all the words in the dictionary, so I dare not publish a book."
Zuo Miaomiao disagreed.
"There are very few scholars in the world who dare to say that they know all the words in the dictionary. You don't need to use that many words to write a travelogue. As long as you can explain things clearly, that's enough. Sister Qiu, you must have kept some notes along the way, right?"
“Yes,” Qiu San Niang replied, “I write in my nautical log every day.”
"Isn't this just a ready-made travelogue!"
Zuo Miaomiao exclaimed in admiration.
"You can publish it after you tidy it up."
"Is this acceptable?" Qiu Sanniang laughed. "I just write whatever I see, without paying attention to word choice or sentence structure. There's nothing literary about it."
"Of course!" Zuo Miaomiao said with longing. "I really want to read it now."
Qiu Sanniang then said, "If you have time to come back to the inn with me later, I'll show it to you."
She had all her luggage delivered to the inn, as she was going to stay there herself.
Zuo Miaomiao replied without hesitation, "I'm free!"
When Xiao Qingyin learned that Qiu Sanniang was planning to stay at an inn, she warmly invited her, saying, "We have plenty of courtyards in our mansion, you can stay here. The inn is too inconvenient with so many people coming and going."
Qiu Sanniang laughed and said, "I won't be staying for long either, so I won't bother you any longer."
Xiao Qingyin asked in surprise, "You rarely come to the capital, why don't you stay a few more days?"
“I’m not leaving the capital,” Qiu Sanniang replied, “I’m going to marry your cousin.”
Xiao Qingyin was stunned.
I knew they were getting married, but I didn't expect them to get married so soon.
He hurriedly asked, "Has the wedding date been set?"
Qiu Sanniang shook her head: "Not yet, but it should be a date within the month. Yun Zhao only took a month's leave."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Qingyin thought to herself that her cousin Zhao had actually learned to use tricks.
Now that the world is at peace, he can take as much leave as he wants, but he only took a month's leave and used it as an excuse. Clearly, he wants to win the heart of his beauty as soon as possible.
However, Qiu San Niang might not be unaware of it; it's just that both parties are interested in each other.
He then said, "Then I should start preparing the congratulatory gift."
Speaking of gifts, Qiu Sanniang immediately remembered what she had brought back and said with a smile, "Come with me to the inn later, I brought you a lot of things."
Xiao Qingyin readily agreed: "Okay."
After having afternoon tea, she and Zuo Miaomiao followed Qiu Sanniang to the inn where she was temporarily staying.
Because she brought a lot of people and goods, Qiu San Niang booked the entire inn to avoid trouble.
As Xiao Qingyin walked into the inn's lobby and heard the repeated calls of "Master Boss," she felt as if she had returned to Hong Kong Island.
The things prepared for Xiao Qingyin were packed into several large boxes. After Qiu San Niang had the boxes brought out for her to see, she showed the nautical log to Zuo Miaomiao.
Zuo Miaomiao was captivated by the journey she described after reading only the beginning.
A suggestion immediately came to mind.
"Third Sister, your nautical logbook will definitely be a bestseller. If you're willing to sign it with our newspaper, we can serialize it in the newspaper first, and then compile it into a book. People all over the country will be scrambling to buy it."
Qiu San Niang wasn't very confident.
Are you sure everyone likes to watch something so boring and tedious?
Zuo Miaomiao's eyes widened: "How is this boring? We've never even heard of the places, people, plants and animals you described, let alone the various setbacks and hardships you encountered along the way. No matter how eloquently those storybooks are written, they can't compare to your simple and plain descriptions."
Seeing her so supportive, Qiu Sanniang said, "Alright, since you're so interested, then let's sign you to your newspaper."
Zuo Miaomiao was overjoyed: "Thank you, Third Sister! I'll go tell Editor-in-Chief Tang right away."
After saying that, he ran off like a gust of wind.
When she arrived at the Tang residence, Tang Xihong was about to have dinner. Upon hearing that she had interviewed Qiu Sanniang and made an appointment with her to publish a book, he immediately put down his rice bowl and came to the inn to find Qiu Sanniang to have dinner together.
The payment for the article and the copyright fee were agreed upon at the dinner party, and the interview with Zuo Miaomiao and Qiu Sanniang's first nautical log were published the next day.
As Zuo Miaomiao predicted, Qiu Sanniang's feat of completing a round-the-world voyage in more than two years caused a huge sensation.
Everyone was deeply shocked.
"So what I'm standing on isn't a square piece of land, but a big sphere."
"It's already legendary enough that she went from a little fisherwoman to the head of the number one pirate gang, but I never expected that she would even sail around the world. Amazing, truly amazing."
"It looks so appealing! I really want to visit all the places she mentioned."
"..."
Readers were eager to see more of the nautical logs, so to meet their needs and to shorten the serialization period, Tang Xihong changed the publication schedule from one log per day to ten logs per day.
Even so, there are still many requests for more updates.
I feel this update is barely enough to satisfy my basic needs.
So he moved up the publication date of his logbook.
Those who want to feast their eyes on it in advance can buy the book directly.
If you can't afford to buy the book, then just wait for the daily updates.
The 500,000 copies of the new book sold out as soon as they hit the market, so an emergency reprint was made, and the second batch was also in high demand.
Tang Xihong then went all out and increased the reprint from 500,000 copies to 1 million copies.
It was reprinted more than ten times in total, and sold more than ten million copies.
It broke the highest sales record for Da Xi's books, excluding the "Thousand Character Classic" and the "Three Character Classic".
Both the newspaper and Qiu San Niang made a fortune.
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