Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 68
Jiang Ning happened to want to go to the Internet cafe, so he half-supported and half-pushed her into the Internet cafe. The Internet cafe was not on the street where the four high schools were located, but was separated by two streets, with a shortcut through the alley in the middle.
Wang Yong rented a small room in a nearby alley. He had nothing to do these days, so he wandered around and discovered that shortcut.
The Internet cafe was very old, with only 20 computers in total.
Several machines and huge computer monitors were like clumsy bricks.
Wang Yong had already diligently helped Jiang Ning turn on the computer and told her, “Teacher Ning Meng, this is the power button. Press here to turn on the computer.”
“Yeah.” Jiang Ning responded absently, but her attention was on the computer screens of the people around her.
At that time, the Penguin chat software did not exist yet. The people who came to the Internet cafe were students from nearby or unemployed young people in the society. Most of them were boys. There were only a few girls who came with the boys to play.
Looking at their computer screens, most of them were playing a fighting game called VR Warrior 2. Even Jiang Ning, who had never played games, knew that fighting overlords and boxing champions were everywhere in the arcades on the streets. Such a 2D game, the one they were playing was similar to King of Fighters, but in 3D.
Seeing Jiang Ning’s eyes fixed on the game on someone else’s computer screen, Wang Yong became anxious and quickly asked her to sit down and drew her attention back, “Teacher Ning Meng, come here, let me teach you how to type first.”
There were two types of typing software now, one was smart abc, which was the original Pinyin typing, and the other was Wubi typing.
To learn Wubi typing, she must first learn to memorize the root characters, which was a bit difficult for novices. However, smart abc had no entry threshold. Anyone who knew Pinyin could get started in one second.
Wang Yong switched to the smart abc and taught Jiang Ning, “Look, just look for n on the keyboard.”
He handed the keyboard to Jiang Ning, saying, “Teacher Ningmeng, try it.”
Jiang Ning thought back to where she had written the last chapter, got a feel for it, and directly switched the input method to Wubi, staring at the computer with her fingers working fast.
Soon, Wang Yong heard only the continuous crackling sound of keyboard tapping.
People of Jiang Ning’s generation practiced the Wubi typing method. Later, the emergence of the intelligent Pinyin method allowed people who used Pinyin typing to type faster. However, Jiang Ning, who was used to Wubi typing, was not used to Pinyin typing.
Moreover, even with various upgrades to the Pinyin typing method, the typing speed was only about the same as the Wubi typing speed.
She could normally reach a speed of 6,000 characters per hour.
Wang Yong, standing beside her, saw the country bumpkin Teacher Ning Meng in his eyes. She didn’t even look at the keyboard; she was typing completely blindly, and her hand speed was astonishingly fast.
He looked at the speed of Jiang Ning’s fingers flying on the keyboard, then at the computer screen, confirming that Teacher Jiang Ning was really not typing blindly. She really knew how to do it.
Thinking of his two-finger method, Wang Yong silently hid his hands behind his back, then silently stepped back, and stood behind Jiang Ning, conscientiously acting as a follower. Ah, bah, he is a good editor.
If there was a question at that time about what it was like to pretend to be someone else’s field of expertise, Wang Yong might be ashamed to answer it.
After Jiang Ning wrote for a while, she quickly clicked save and saved the file directly on the desktop so that she could delete it later.
At that time, the office software did not have the function of real-time saving. Once your computer froze, or the screen went black, or someone accidentally unplugged the wire, the manuscript they just wrote would be lost, and they would have to start writing again. Jiang Ning saved it as soon as possible, and then clicked save every time she wrote about 500 words.
That was a lesson learned from a bitter experience during a certain period in her previous life.
Due to limited time, Jiang Ning did not stay in the Internet cafe for a long time. She only wrote one chapter and hurriedly pressed the save button to save it to the computer. Then she opened her Yahoo mailbox and saw that there were indeed several emails in it, all from Li Ang, the founder of the Wuxia Magazine.
When Wang Yong saw the sender of the email, he quickly said, “This is Director Li Ang, the founder of our magazine.”
The first email was to tell Jiang Ning about the royalties for her two manuscripts and to urge her to publish more.
The second email was to urge her to write a manuscript and asked if she was very busy at work and unable to access the Internet, which was why she didn’t reply.
The third email asked her what was going on. He sent someone over to talk to her about signing the contract. He hoped that she would reply as soon as possible and urged her to publish more.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth emails were similar, all urging her to submit her manuscripts.
Jiang Ning summarized the core content of these emails and concluded that they were urging her to write. She thought for a moment and replied, “Okay.”
Then she silently saved the manuscript she just wrote into her draft box.
Wang Yong saw it from the side and quickly said, “Teacher Ning Meng, why don’t you send me the manuscript first, which will save you another trip to the Internet cafe later?”
The people who came in and out of the Internet cafe these days were students who didn’t like studying very much, or people who were idle in society. If she had to come to the Internet cafe alone, he really wouldn’t feel at ease.
“Okay,” Jiang Ning simply said. “I’ll give you the manuscript I’ve written later. I’ll write more over the weekend. When you finish copying, you can just pick up the weekend manuscript.”
Wang Yong thought of Jiang Ning’s hand speed. She could finish more than 3,000 words in just over half an hour, so he suggested, “Teacher Ning Meng, you have two days off tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Why not come to the Internet cafe to finish the manuscript?”
Jiang Ning had the same idea. Writing by hand in her dormitory, she could write at most twelve thousand characters in a day. If she wrote too many manuscripts over the weekend, she couldn’t take her studies into account. It was definitely not possible to continue like that.
She wanted to make money, but she couldn’t neglect her studies either.
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