Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 55
“Usually when there is a letter, I will write the recipient’s name on the small blackboard and hang it under the window so that the students who come out can see it at a glance. I have hung this blackboard for almost a week yet there was no reply. I came to pick up the letter. I thought I had misremembered it, but I also thought, how could anyone have the surname Ning?” His local accent was particularly contagious, making people follow the uncle’s accent unknowingly.
That blackboard was hung under the window behind the guard room facing the school. When students walked from inside to the school gate, they could naturally see the blackboard at a glance.
But Wang Yong had been wandering at the school gate these days. If he couldn’t get in, naturally he couldn’t see this small blackboard.
As for Jiang Ning, she had been in military training this week and was exhausted. The little free time she had left after the military training every day was filled with crazy writing. She had never come to the gate at all. The only time she was at the gate of the school was when there were still many freshmen crowded to take photos, and saying goodbye to the instructors. They had crowded in the words on the small blackboard. It was already dark, who could see the small blackboard?
Jiang Ning was in a hurry and went to the grocery store at the school gate to check the status of Wuxia manuscripts. She didn’t notice that there was a small blackboard crowded behind the crowd.
Wang Yong looked at the names that were almost wiped out on the small blackboard. They were so blurred that only ghosts could see them clearly.
The guard Wu Che said, “It’s not me, it’s those little kids who crowded here and have erased all my writing. I wrote clearly.”
Wang Yong held the sample issue sent to Ning Meng from the magazine. Looking at the way the doorman spat, he silently wiped his face, “Uncle, can you call Jiang Ning for me now?”
The uncle said, “That won’t work. I still have to guard the door. I can’t leave.”
He wiped the small blackboard with a wet rag, wrote the names of the recipients on the small blackboard for the letters from the guard office, hung them on the window at the back of the place facing the school, and said to Wang Yong, ” You don’t know Jiang Ning’s class, so I can’t call her for you. I can’t call her class by class. There are ten classes in the first year of high school. Won’t you disturb the students’ studies? I’ll hang her name here. She will come looking for me when she sees it. You see, I wrote the word “Ning Meng” in the center, which is the largest space.”
Wang Yong was really helpless, so he called back to the magazine and told Director Li what he had discovered. When Director Li came to know that Ning Meng was a girl under the age of fourteen, he even said, “It’s absolutely impossible. How can she be a little girl? If you say she’s twenty years old, I may still believe it. She’s less than fourteen years old. It’s impossible.”
Wang Yong told Director Li what the police station there believed. Director Li nodded in agreement, “This may be true. So find this Jiang Ning first, and you can ask her.”
Before he finished speaking, Director Li suddenly thought, if it weren’t for this little girl who was less than fourteen years old, then why did Ning Meng leave her email address but never reply?
He suddenly thought of what the female lead said in the Catcher of Song Dynasty: “After eliminating all possibilities, what is left, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth.”
“You just said that Wucheng No. 1 High School is under closed management.” Director Li asked Wang Yong, “Are the students completely unable to come out?”
“That’s not true,” Wang Yong reported his investigation to Director Li. “There are local students in the school. They go to morning reading at six o’clock in the morning and study in the evening until 9:30. The local students also go in and out at this time. Students who live on campus stay in school all day long and cannot come out.”
“During the weekend?”
“I don’t know yet about the weekend. They were in military training last weekend and went to class directly the next day.”
“Is there an Internet cafe nearby? What time does the Internet cafe open in the evening?”
“There is no Internet cafe nearby. In order to investigate and inquire about Ning Meng these days, I have traveled all over the neighborhood. There are four high schools nearby. Facing Wucheng Junior High School is Wucheng No. 1 High School. There are also No. 2 High School and No. 4 High School not far away.”
“Okay, I get it,” Director Li rubbed his forehead, having a rough idea. “Look for Jiang Ning.”
He already suspected that Ning Meng was really Jiang Ning, who was less than fourteen years old. If she was from within the public security system, as the police inferred, there would be no way she wouldn’t have replied to the email by now—unless she was undercover.
This little girl was so familiar with public security criminal investigation methods. She probably had a relative or friend in the family who works in the public security system.
He walked to Editor Bao’s office and said, “Pay more attention to the letters in the submission box these days to see if there are any letters from Jiang Ning. Her place is far away from us. It takes time for her to write and for it to reach us. Don’t give up until the last moment. If it really doesn’t work, didn’t you reserve two chapters? We’ll publish those two chapters in the fifth issue.”
With the end of Jiang Ning’s military training, the fourth issue of Wuxia had also been released, but it was still being distributed in Guangshi and had not yet been distributed to Nanshi and Shanghai. In that issue, Director Li finally did what they did when they first published it, printing a million copies for the first time.
He knew that too many manuscripts had been released and that the fifth issue might be empty, but he couldn’t let go of the enthusiasm, especially at the critical moment when his Guangzhou branch was about to be canceled.
Due to the sales of these few issues of the magazine, it also brought huge profits to the Wuxia magazine, and even advertisements came to them. The higher-ups had finally stopped mentioning the cancellation of the Guangzhou branch, but no one could guarantee how long that enthusiasm would last.
If that popularity couldn’t be maintained, it would be a matter of time before the magazine withdrew from the market.
“We still need Wang Yong to push for more manuscripts.” He worried that if the other party was really a high school student, it would be troublesome. The number of manuscripts would certainly reduce, especially as she enters her second and third years of high school when studies become more intense and the less time she would have to write manuscripts. They couldn’t only count on Ning Meng’s manuscripts.
“We still need to solicit more submissions. But how? How has our magazine ever stopped soliciting manuscripts?”
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