Chapter 86: Kankan Kankan Yesterday, Jing Ting thinks about the future
Since ancient times, the hierarchy gap between people is ultimately an imbalance in the mastery of resources and an asymmetry in the mastery of information.
In history, some powerful traitors and slander ministers were able to manipulate a whole era because they had some key resources and some important information. Even in this era, this imbalance still exists in various fields and is even reflected in daily life, such as Yu Xiaoshu and Zhao Kan at this time.
Because Yu Xiaoshu wanted to please Ye Chi, he hoped to get a new book by Yi Shui'an in advance, but he had no idea about the publishing industry, so he had to ask Zhao Kan, who was ignorant all day long. At this time, Zhao Kan had the advantage of controlling Yu Xiaoshu.
However, what Yu Xiaoshu didn't know was that Zhao Kan's grasp of all gossips about the publishing industry and Jiujiu actually came from the forums and other netizens. As for the industry's connections and publishing resources, there was no way to start. So at this time, his confidence began to leak when facing Xiaoshu and Liu Jingting's sincere request.
"This, the news I got here is that Yishuian's new book will not be available on Christmas Day. If it is a month in advance, the manuscript will not be released, and I can't help it."
Yu Xiaoshu looked at Zhao Kan in confusion and said, "What should I do before? Didn't you say that the book is on Christmas? Just five days in advance."
"Oh, you mean Ye Chi is December 20th birthday?"
Yu Xiaoshu nodded in panic, and Liu Jingting, who was not afraid of the big trouble, took the opportunity to say, "Oh, Kanye, what do you mean is that there is definitely no problem five days in advance?"
Zhao Kan glared at Liu Jingting, and Liu Jingting frowned in confusion, not knowing what he had done wrong.
"Just five days, I'll talk, do you think it's okay?"
Zhao Kan was basically sure that he could not get the book five days in advance, but was brought here by two roommates at this time. No matter what, he had to deal with it first, and he could only hold on for a while.
"Okay, I'll take a look for you first, but don't have too much hope. After all, I'm just an ordinary reader."
When Zhao Kan talked about the word "ordinary", he was humble and fucked with others and could not hear anything ordinary.
Liu Jingting was amused, but his face was silent, and asked, "I'm very curious. What motive or opportunity did you devote yourself to the ranks of "ordinary readers"?"
Yu Xiaoshu had already let go of Zhao Kan at this time, but because he had something to ask for, he looked at Zhao Kan very devoutly and waited for him to tell his glorious past.
What storytellers hate the most is that there is no audience, so they are serious and interested in the audience. It is also the most indifferent trick in flattery. Employees who have heard the boss talk about their entrepreneurial experience. They must have a feeling about this.
Zhao Kan smiled slightly, fell into a state of memory, and said, "When talking about my history of reading, it is about 11 or 2 years since now. As Jingting said, I did start my own reading journey by chance. At that time, I was only about five or six years old. For some reason, I was specially approved by the preschool teacher not to attend classes at school."
Yu Xiaoshu quickly continued: "I was awesome when I was a child."
Zhao Kan waved his hand and said, "It's okay. It's mainly because he was fat at that time and was often bullied and cried by other classmates."
Liu Jingting couldn't help laughing and looked at Yu Xiaoshu. Unexpectedly, Yu Xiaoshu said, "I knew how to be humble at that time."
Zhao Kan's memory of the time was also quite vague. Judging from his current perspective, he shouldn't have been afraid of being bullied, so he actually agreed with this statement and said, "Anyway, I was quite honest at that time and didn't want to fight with others. In short, after being criticized by the teacher, I would follow one of my uncles all day long. Speaking of my uncle, he is also a strange person."
Zhao Kan stopped at the right time, pointed to the water dispenser and said, "Jingting comes and pour me a glass of water."
Liu Jingting said excitedly, "You always mean the wrong person, right?"
Zhao Kan cleverly leaves blank space, which is a classic storytelling technique, commonly known as "stolen money". He intended to use this to command Liu Jingting, so that he would surrender two roommates in the dormitory within one day. Unexpectedly, Liu Jingting did not take this trick at all, and he looked like "you like to say but not to say".
Storytellers know how to leave suspense to attract people who listen to stories, but high-level listeners also know how to make a storyteller unable to stop when they talk about it. Similar to writing novels, readers like reading ** parts, and the author also likes to write **s. Liu Jingting is well aware of this. Zhao Kan threatens him with this, and he is just a witch.
Fortunately, Yu Xiaoshu saw the opportunity quickly and poured the water to Zhao Kan in time. Zhao Kan stepped on the steps and went down the road and continued: "My uncle has loved martial arts since he was a child. Every day, except for sleeping and eating, the rest of his time is practicing boxing, making sandbags, hanging double rings, and somersaults. The most impressive thing is that he can twist his arms and make the place under the back and neck sound like a "slap". At that time, I mistakenly thought this was a sign of the great achievement of magical skills, and my admiration for him was simply unparalleled. Under my misleading, he gradually felt that he was extraordinary and began to look for people everywhere to perform his skills, harden his abdominal muscles and make people hit him with his fists."
Zhao Kan took a sip of water, stopped pausing, and continued, "I saw with my own eyes that after a few boys of seven or eight years old hit his abdominal muscles, they said that their hands were hurt, and one was directly shocked by him. I was shocked at that time, and clamored to learn such magical skills, and then went back to school to take revenge. With my every request, my uncle finally agreed to accept me as his disciple, and then started teaching me to stance and practice Qi every day. After practicing this for a week, I thought I had achieved a small success, so I went back to school to challenge the boys who often bullied me."
"You beat them up and urinate?" Yu Xiaoshu guessed.
"No, I took the literary fight. At that time, I stood there and tried my best and told them, "You can hit me in the abdomen at will. I will shake you away, and then a guy kicked my stomach. That bastard was so cruel."
"You knocked him away?" Yu Xiaoshu continued with little confidence.
Zhao Kan shook his head and smiled, "I suddenly felt timid at that time and let him go. The guy kicked him in vain and fell down."
"Withful." Yu Xiaoshu and Liu Jingting answered in unison.
Zhao Kan nodded and continued, "When a few other boys saw it, they said I was cheating, and then they joined forces to beat me up. I thought they were fighting randomly and did not give me the chance to play my magical skills at all, so after I got home, I asked my uncle to learn fist and foot skills, and then my uncle threw a stack of books for me."
"Martial Arts secret book?" Liu Jingting asked with a smile.
"Indeed, you should have seen Shaolin fist, one-finger Zen, eighteen falls, legs and so on, etc. that were particularly popular at that time."
"After seeing these books, you decided to abandon martial arts and follow the literature?" Liu Jingting guessed.
Zhao Kan nodded and said, "There are many pictures in those books, especially like comic strips, so the more I read it, the more I felt it was fun, so I forgot about practicing boxing. From then on, I embarked on the path of bookworms."
After listening to Zhao Kan's story, Liu Jingting couldn't help but think of his reading experience. The first book I read was the comic strip "Shuke and Beta" which is now serialized in "Children's Literature". The first martial arts novel was also a comic strip, which happened to be the "Seven Swords Under the Tianshan Mountains" which he was serialized in the name of Gu Yongsheng. The first classic book was Mr. Lu Xun's "The True Story of Ah Q", and the first foreign novel was Haruki Murakami's "Norwegian Forest"...
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a sudden change in my heart, as if I was thinking of a relatively difficult question, and then I heard Zhao Kan say, "That night I really made you laugh. In fact, over the years, I dare not say that I have read more than ten thousand books, and at least I have read a thousand books. However, there are very few people who can make me cry. Even if I read "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" there is no such situation."
"By the way, I seem to hear that the author named Gu Yongsheng seems to only write tragedies." Yu Xiaoshu's argument was naturally occasionally seen by some people when he was online, and he quoted it here.
Gu Yongsheng sighed and said, "It's not a question of whether it will be possible, but the author's own thoughts. In fact, although everyone has a discussion of this and that, now if you think about it carefully, the endings of the previous books seem to be reasonable. The author has laid the foundation for the story during the writing process. Maybe the author thinks that the tragedy is more powerful."
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Liu Jingting did not continue to worry about the problem just now. The so-called road before the car arrives at the mountain is still mainly based on domestic novels. After all, he is still in high school and is a minor. Many behaviors are restricted. At that time, he would save trouble by pushing his books.
I read the post of Tiandao Youchang online at night. I became more and more curious about this guy. I had a vague idea in my mind. No matter how good Qianhong and Lu Yichou are to him, he would not be able to cooperate with them forever. Whether it is to make the books in his mind more dazzling or out of a personal pursuit, one day in the future, he will inevitably become independent. He wants to do his own career and run his own magazines. To do these, two basic conditions are required: one is money and the other is people.
Now for him, money is no longer a problem. The book "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" brought him a "seven-digit" income. In addition, the upcoming "Seven Swords" and the surrounding areas of "Shuke and Beta", the copyright of "Xiao Shiyilang" and other unpredictable new books were published. It is conservatively estimated that after the end of three years of high school, Liu Jingting's wealth even has the hope to approach eight-digit numbers.
After entering university, he will have great freedom whether it is time or personal rights. At that time, he can let go of his hands and feet and complete his plans one by one. Therefore, he needs people and people of high level. This is also the reason why he is so interested in "the way of heaven is permanent".
The discussion on "The White Horse Roars in the West Wind" continues on the Internet. Although I occasionally see a few rude and unprovoked posts, as the history teacher metaphorized, these posts quickly fell into a vast ocean of praise and analysis posts.
However, those posts that requested Gu Yongsheng's next novel "Please don't abuse" resonated with some readers, and the navy also used this to do some articles.
Chapter completed!