Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 45
Wuxia magazine was a weekly magazine. Since they received the manuscript, it had been serialized into two issues, with each issue having 20,000 words.
The original weekly Wuxia magazine then only sold 500,000 copies a month, and the sales volume had dropped sharply. Unexpectedly, as soon as that issue of the magazine came out, in just one week, the sales volume reached 500,000 copies. If it continued, the monthly sales volume would exceed 1,000,000 copies. It was just a matter of time. There were still many readers who wrote to scold the author for the cliffhanger. They asked the magazine to quickly publish the next issue. They wanted to know the follow-up.
After the second issue of the magazine was serialized, the sales increased by hundreds of thousands in a week, because the author was even more inhumane, and actually stopped the plot at the moment when the protagonist followed her father to peel off the cocoon, and was about to unravel the case, just like a critical moment when a good man was about to be beheaded. Suddenly, Zhan Zhao rode a horse and gave an order shouting, “Save one under the guillotine.”
The readers were so anxious that all kinds of letters urging the author and criticizing the magazine were sent to the office like snowflakes.
That was the first time they encountered such an inhumane piece of work. They didn’t know whether it was because the magazine was inhumane or because the author was inhumane. Anyway, the readers also scolded them.
As for the magazine, Editor Bao was already looking for Jiang Ning crazily. Apart from an address, she had no phone number, email, or social network.
At first, they just replied to the letter and asked the author to send the manuscript for the next issue quickly. As a result, the letter fell into the sea without any feedback.
Yes, after the results of the first serialization issue came out, they sent another letter to urge the manuscript, but there was still no reply.
“Haven’t you found this Ning Meng yet?”
The founder, Director Li Ang, was already running around anxiously. In order to prevent her parents and Mother Jiang from knowing that she might make money by writing, Jiang Ning kept her pen name in the letter as Ning Meng.
When she first went to the brigade headquarters to get the mail, the people at the brigade headquarters were busy and threw the recently received letters to her and asked her to find them by herself. Of course, she found the address to which they were addressed.
Letter from Zhiyin author Ning Meng.
(Zhiyin style is a spoof form of renaming fairy tales, classics, etc., like she did here with a TV series.)
Due to the distance, Wuxia’s letter arrived the next day after she went there. By that time, she had already gone to the school to register and asked Grandpa Jiang to pay attention. Grandpa Jiang went there several times and asked if there was any letter for Jiang Ning. The people thought it was a letter from Jiang Ning, but of course it turned out not to be.
They found two letters from Ning Meng. “Who is this Ning Meng? There is no one named Ning Meng in our village.” They thought someone sent the letters to the wrong address. When the postman came to deliver the letter again, the people from the brigade directly sent these letters back. The two letters were sent back the way they came.
The people in the Wuxia editorial department went crazy when they received these two returned letters.
Jiang Ning really forgot about it.
In those days, she would be called by Mother Jiang every day before dawn to move bricks in the brick factory. Instead of moving bricks, she would go fishing for crayfish. At dawn, she would go back to the mountain hut to bake the crayfish to sell. After selling, she would come back to continue writing because she had to start school. She had collected more than seven hundred yuan before. She felt uneasy and returned to Jiang’s house at night when it was completely dark.
She was worried that Mother Jiang would find out that she didn’t go to the brick factory, and that a big battle would inevitably happen. It kept her nerves tense, and for a moment she forgot that she sent it under a pen name. When she told Grandpa Jiang, she said it was also her letter. She forgot to mention her pen name, Ning Meng. In fact, Grandpa Jiang might not be able to remember it even if she had mentioned it. It was just such a mistake.
Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai ate in the cafeteria in the evening. The dishes were a large can of salted fish and pickled beans that Jiang Ning brought over.
Jiang Ning had spent all the money in her hands after paying for tuition, books, tuition and miscellaneous fees, accommodation fees, and school uniforms.
In addition to the seven kilograms of meal stamps that could guarantee her food source for the next week, she urgently needed a new source of income.
When she returned to the dormitory, she had no intention of socializing with others. She put down the mosquito net and started writing inside.
Xu Xiuli’s parents in the same room had left, leaving only her and Xu Xiuli.
Xu Xiuli saw that her roommate was so busy. After dinner, she did nothing but put down the mosquito net and started writing inside. The girl thought she was studying the content of a new book. She was so frightened that she quickly picked up the new book and started previewing.
Those who could pass the No. 1 High School were basically all Wucheng natives, except those who were locals in Wucheng.
Once Jiang Ning finished writing, she immediately turned off the lights in the room.
When Xu Xiuli saw her bedmate in the next bed, she finally put down her pen and prepared to go to the bathroom to take a bath. Then she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The bathrooms were public bathrooms, one on the east and west sides. Each bathroom had about twenty shower heads and no hot water.
If they wanted to take a hot bath, they had to fetch water from the hot boiler downstairs, pour it into a basin mixed with cold water, and pour it on themselves.
The place for brushing teeth and washing clothes was also a common area. It was in the inverted U-shaped area between the bathroom and toilet. The entire inverted U-shaped pool was a place where clothes could be washed.
There were fewer people at that time, but there were still four or five, and they were all chatting in the dormitories nearby.
The shouting reached downstairs, and the dormitory aunt downstairs came up and knocked on the iron door, “It’s ten o’clock and you’re still not sleeping?”
The girl above shouted, “I’m washing my clothes, I’ll go to sleep right away.”
She heard the voices of the girls upstairs and some voices from the freshmen boys downstairs.
The movement upstairs and downstairs suddenly stopped.
It was pitch dark, with only a few faint lights in the corridor. Jiang Ning took advantage of the fact that it was still hot and washed the green plaid sheets and quilt covers issued by the school and the camouflage uniforms required for military training. Xu Xiuli saw her washing new sheets and quilts and quickly went to get her own to wash. When they finished washing, they realized that there were no hangers. The two of them had to go buy them next time.
The clothes were simply hung on the clothes drying pole outside the balcony of the dormitory.
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