Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 144

When Jiang Ning was in college in her previous life, there was a student in a dormitory who was a hepatitis B virus carrier. Hepatitis B virus was not contagious through daily contact, but unfortunately, the girls in that dormitory seemed to be infected by eating together. Later, when it was exposed, they found out that someone in their dormitory had hepatitis B.

Jiang Ning’s previous career made her pay special attention to eating. One must use separate serving chopsticks to serve food for leaders.

Xu Xiuli also minded eating food that everyone poked with their used chopsticks and agreed with Jiang Ning’s suggestion of eating separately.

Originally, Jiang Ning wanted everyone to share it among themselves, but everyone was afraid that others would eat more and they would have less.

She casually divided it into several portions and put them on the table for everyone to take. Everyone reached for the portion they thought was bigger. Anyway, they all looked the same.

He Xiaofang was also very happy. When she went to fetch water after dinner, she wanted Jiang Ning to wait for her outside. She went to fetch water, but before she could say anything, the dormitory leader had already fetched the water for her.

Why were they still competing with her? He Xiaofang’s crisis suddenly came.

Jiang Ning was going to deliver food to Grandpa Jiang. He Xiaofang quickly ran to the dormitory and helped Jiang Ning collect all her clothes. She folded them one by one and placed them on Jiang Ning’s bedside.

The cleanliness in the dormitory was allotted to Liu Ping alone, so she took the mop to clean the floor. He Xiaofang thought Liu Ping did not clean it well enough. She cleaned Jiang Ning’s side, smoothed the sheets for her, and then looked at the bed she had made, feeling satisfied.

Ever since the meat was shared in the dormitory, the atmosphere in the dormitory had become more harmonious than ever.

The dormitory head was also very concerned about the accounting issues of renting books, and Liu Ping was also very happy. Even though the money from renting books was not hers, she was very happy to see the money coming in every day.

Lu Xuehua also had doubts about her character because of Liu Ping’s previous deception and the fact that she secretly rented out Jiang Ning’s books. She was also very strict about supervising her renting books.

Liu Ping didn’t care about it either; she was happily beside Lu Xuehua every day

Because He Xiaofang followed Jiang Ning all day long, when Jiang Ning was away, she helped her with whatever happened in the dormitory. Everyone agreed that He Xiaofang and Jiang Ning had a good relationship. They could no longer be cold to He Xiaofang. They also said to her, “Xiaofang, can you please be quieter when you snore at night? I am disturbed by you every day.”

He Xiaofang was a little embarrassed and scratched her thick black hair. “I didn’t know about that. Can you please wake me up at night?”

“It’s not possible at all,” Liu Ping also complained to everyone. “I don’t dare to sleep head-to-head with you now. I’ve kicked you several times at night.”

She kicked her, but the girl just rolled over and fell asleep again, to no avail.

Wang Xia, the dormitory head who slept on the lower bunk, also said, “Oh, I pushed her with my foot several times, thinking that it would be better to wake her up. Now I always stuff my ears with cotton balls.”

“I stuffed mine with paper balls, but it couldn’t stop her snoring.”

Although everyone was talking about He Xiaofang’s snoring, they were not as cold and distant as before.

He Xiaofang was embarrassed by everyone, so she could only scratch her head and giggle.

Unknowingly, He Xiaofang also started talking to everyone in the dormitory, instead of only talking to Jiang Ning every day.

Since everyone was now familiar with each other, they naturally felt embarrassed to bully He Xiaofang again. But He Xiaofang didn’t know how to refuse others. Sometimes when people asked her to help with something, they still liked to call her, and He Xiaofang was always willing to help others.

She had been used to working since she was a child and didn’t feel that she was suffering if she helped others with simple tasks. On the contrary, when others were willing to ask her to do things, it made her feel more at ease psychologically.

There was one thing, though—everyone in the dormitory liked to compete with her for Jiang Ning’s chores.

Jiang Ning was independent by nature and did everything herself. When she wasn’t in the dormitory, there were some small things that needed to be cleaned and tidied up. He Xiaofang was very happy to do them, but there were always people trying to compete with her.

Sometimes Jiang Ning’s water bottle was carried back to the dormitory before she could get it.

Especially the dormitory head!

So, He Xiaofang became even more diligent. Even if there was a wrinkle on Jiang Ning’s sheets, she would straighten it out so that none of them could grab her chores.

 Perhaps because of the joint rent business, for a time, the dormitory was unusually harmonious, and the atmosphere was exceptionally pleasant.

That harmonious environment brought Jiang Ning emotional comfort and relaxation. Unknowingly, the tension in her heart disappeared, and she began to relax.

The person who experienced the most change in the dormitory was He Xiaofang. She had been tense initially, but she unknowingly relaxed in such an environment. When Jiang Ning was not around, she not only chatted and laughed with the others in the dormitory, but occasionally, when the dormitory head competed with her for Jiang Ning’s tasks, she even dared to quarrel with her.

After New Year’s Day, Detective Bao was also finished and released. Catcher in the Song Dynasty had been serializing for almost four months. Because of Jiang Ning’s diligence, she still had more than 100,000 words’ worth of manuscripts in the Wuxia magazine. Their market gradually stabilized in the north, and the magazines began to be distributed to newsstands. This also allowed Catcher in the Song Dynasty to spread more widely, reaching more readers. The published books of the Catcher in the Song Dynasty were also reprinted.

At the same time, the second volume of Catcher in the Song Dynasty had also begun production and was being released.

The publishing house was eager to take advantage of the current popularity of the Catcher in the Song Dynasty and quickly launch it on the market, but the magazine had to consider the progress of its serialization.

If it had not yet been fully serialized in the magazine and physical books were distributed, who would buy their magazines then? So, it was impossible for them to agree to it.

The current publishing rights for it were authorized by Ning Meng.

People came to obtain the publishing authorization for the second volume, but they didn’t want to offend the magazine. After all, since Wuxia entered the northern market, the current monthly sales volume was astonishingly high. Even a small advertisement in Wuxia magazine cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Fortunately, the first volume also sold very well and was reprinted several times.

As the series continued to be published, one issue after another, five extremely exciting cases had appeared in succession. As these cases unfolded, characters with great personality and charm also emerged, and the heroine finally entered the Kaifeng Mansion (the government office building for administration and justice departments). She was about to meet Zhan Zhao and Justice Bao.

The plot ended abruptly there, and it could be said that it reached a small climax, which caused the sales of the Wuxia magazine to increase a bit.

Even people who didn’t read magazines very often had heard of Wuxia magazine. Sometimes, when passing by a newsstand, they saw a few magazine covers in the most conspicuous places. Some of them were promotions for the book posted on the door of the bookstore.

There were also some places, like Manager Qian’s unit at Shanghai, where he specifically brought in a few magazines, such as Readers and Youth Digest, placing them on small bookshelves in the office. This made it easy for people to casually browse through the magazines while they waited to sit down.

In places without bookshelves, they simply placed a few books or magazines on a small round table.