Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 44
The dormitory building they arrived at was mixed. Due to fewer female students, the top two floors were designated exclusively for girls. Staircases were separated by two iron doors, ensuring separation between the floors.
As Jiang Bai escorted Jiang Ning toward the fourth floor of the dormitory, they were halted by the dormitory matron. “Boys are not allowed in the girls’ dormitory,” she asserted firmly.Â
The matron, adorned with a bunch of keys at her waist and seated on a bamboo chair, positioned herself on the stairs connecting the fourth and fifth floors.
Jiang Ning quickly intervened, “Hello, auntie, this is my brother, a senior high school student here. There’s a lot to carry, so he’s helping me.”
“Okay, make it quick,” replied the dormitory matron, eyeing Jiang Ning’s disheveled hair and Jiang Bai’s striking appearance before gesturing for them to proceed.
With that settled, Jiang Ning swiftly made her way to dormitory room 610.
Arriving early, she found the room equipped with eight beds, two of which were already occupied. One occupant’s family member was currently making his daughter’s bed, while she smiled warmly at Jiang Ning’s arrival. Returning the gesture, Jiang Ning greeted a shy, big-eyed girl who stood nearby, saying, “Hello, my name is Jiang Ning, from Class 3.”
The girl nodded with a small smile, introducing herself, “I’m Xu Xiuli, also from Class 3.”
“And this is my brother Jiang Bai. He’s a senior at our No. 1 High school.”
Xu Xiuli nodded quietly, but her father turned around abruptly, grabbing Jiang Bai’s hand and shaking it vigorously. “Hello, hello, hello!”Â
Jiang Bai, still holding a bunch of Jiang Ning’s belongings, was taken aback by the enthusiastic handshake, nearly dropping the thermos bottle.Â
Jiang Ning quickly placed her items on a lower bunk near the window. “Brother, over here,” she directed, prompting Jiang Bai to swiftly move his load.
Afterward, Jiang Ning set about making her bed, hanging the mosquito net, laying out the mat, and arranging the washbasins on the washstand. Additionally, there was a cabinet with eight doors, each equipped with an iron latch that students could lock with their own small padlocks. The two central cabinets were already occupied, so Jiang Ning selected the middle one and put her belongings inside.
Once she ensured her bed was protected by the mosquito net, Jiang Ning finished organizing her things and went downstairs with Jiang Bai with a bag of rice. As they descended, the dormitory matron commented, “Took you quite a while. Next time, don’t keep me waiting.”
Jiang Ning smiled gratefully and responded, “Thank you, auntie.”
After Jiang Bai wordlessly accepted the rice bag from her grasp, Jiang Ning handed over the 800 yuan that their mother had given her to give him for tuition and living expenses. “This is for your expenses. Dad will send more rice in a couple of days.”
Taking charge, Jiang Bai escorted Jiang Ning to the canteen where they weighed the rice and exchanged it for ten kilograms of food stamps. Jiang Ning then passed three kilograms to Jiang Bai, saying, “You can repay me when Dad sends more rice for the food stamps.”
With seven kilograms of food stamps remaining, Jiang Ning knew it would be a stretch to make them last a week.
They could buy meals directly in the cafeteria with money. A half-pound food stamp could buy as many meals as a fifty-cent meal ticket, but a yuan was worth more than a pound of meal stamps. Jiang Bai’s food stamps were worth twelve kilograms a week, which was about fifty kilograms a month. Father Jiang would have to come and drop two hundred kilograms of rice to exchange for that many food stamps.
In her previous life, Jiang Ning earned thirty kilograms of food a month. Since she entered high school one year earlier than in her previous life, her class teacher, teachers, and classmates were all different from those in her previous life.
Jiang Bai didn’t say much after taking the food stamps. He had quite a few food stamps. If Father Jiang didn’t send food over, he originally planned to go back the next morning and pick up the food himself.
The dormitory building for high school boys was not in the same area as the first and second grade boys, but was in the faculty dormitory area in front. Because there were too many students, the dormitory building couldn’t accommodate them, so a two-story building behind the faculty dormitory area was arranged. The building had been turned into a dormitory area for senior high school boys. It was quiet and more suitable for senior high school students.
Those who came earlier had dormitories to live in, but those who came later found that the school dormitories were full, so the students had to find ways to rent a house near the school. In Jiang Ning’s previous life, she lived in a shared house outside the school.
School officially started the day after. After Jiang Ning arranged the bed, she lay down on the bed and continued to write her “My Years as a Catcher in the Song Dynasty”. She had already sent a 40,000-word manuscript to a Wuxia magazine, but she had not received a reply yet. Jiang Ning had written more than 30,000 words but there was still no news there. She decided to submit it to another one.
Little did she know that the Wuxia magazine was also worried because they couldn’t contact Jiang Ning.
Wuxia magazine was founded in 1980. In the early 1980s, it printed one million copies for the first time. Until the serialization of “The Legend of the Condor Heroes” became popular, the highest monthly sales reached 3.5 million copies per month, three years after it was launched. The total print run reached more than 33 million copies, which could be said to be a glorious period. Until the middle and late stages, it still maintained monthly sales of two million copies.
However, with the popularity of martial arts novels introduced to the mainland by writers such as Jin Yong and Gu Long in the 1990s, more martial arts magazines hit the market. Coupled with the staff transfer within the magazines, by the early 1990s, the martial arts market was overtaken. With the impact of more magazines of the same type, the market share inevitably decreased. That year was the most difficult year for the martial arts magazine. Many editors of the martial arts magazine had been transferred. The superiors were even holding a meeting to discuss how to replace the martial arts magazine. The Guangzhou branch of their magazine was canceled.
Only the editor-in-chief and the founder of the magazine were still struggling to maintain it.
Half a month ago, Wuxia magazine received another manuscript. That manuscript was different from the current hot-selling martial arts novels. It was a detective and reasoning novel that also took into account the martial arts style. It also had a heroine’s perspective that was completely different from the current martial arts style.
When he first received the detective work, the editor wasn’t too interested. However, Justice Bao was so popular during that period that the editor couldn’t help but look at it.
Although the author was not well-known and was not a veteran writer of martial arts magazines, her writing style was quite sophisticated. Each chapter was dissected at a point that made people want to never put it down. By the time he finished reading the first 40,000 words, the case was about to be revealed. The climax of the revelation of the truth was cut off, and the editor was so heartbroken that he wished he could immediately arrest the author of the novel and lock her in a small dark room to force her to write another hundred thousand words.
He quickly handed over the work to the founder of the magazine and showed it to him. The two of them unanimously decided to take advantage of the popularity of Justice Bao all over the country to quickly release the work while it was popular, and at the same time send people to find the author.
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