"Can I let me see?" Lin Weidong asked expectantly.

"Of course not." Annie refused Lin Weidong's request without thinking.

Lin Weidong was not disappointed, and could fully understand Annie's thoughts, but was confused: "Sister Annie, aren't you going to publish this novel you are writing now under the banyan tree?"

Annie said calmly: "Yes, if I don't plan to serialize this novel under the banyan tree, I will directly find a publisher to publish it."

"Why?" Lin Weidong looked at Annie in confusion.

Anne said bluntly: "Because there is no threshold for online writing, those traditional publishers have serious lack of confidence in us online writers."

"I think that only when we have published physical books ourselves can those publishers look at us differently and endorse our literary level."

Lin Weidong nodded suddenly and realized: "So that's the case. No wonder your novel has become popular on the Internet and has not been published. It turns out that they look down on us online writers at all."

"So that's it." Annie nodded, slowed down, and then said: "Actually, the company had also gone to Beijing to sell my books before. At that time, I had already written a very popular work online, but the publisher was always hesitant. Even if our company said that the number of prints was only 20,000 copies, the publisher still refused to agree."

"They don't think there will be good works on the Internet. As for the current situation, it will be very difficult to change their ideas."

Lin Weidong sighed: "So, as you say, isn't this book "E.com Deep Love" I wrote, can't be published in our mainland?"

Although "E.com Deep Love" has published traditional Chinese books in Taiwan and fulfilled Lin Weidong's dream of writing, Taiwan is just a province after all. As a mainlander, what Lin Weidong most longs for is still to publish his own simplified Chinese books in the mainland.

Looking at Lin Weidong's discouraged look, Annie comforted: "Gucheng, it is indeed difficult to publish novels serialized on the Internet in the mainland, but it is not completely unavailable."

"Or why, I'll take you to meet someone tomorrow. Maybe he can help you."

"Also, haven't you always wanted to see Wang Shuo? He and Wang Shuo are good friends. This time, Wang Shuo is willing to serve as a judge because he invited him to do this."

When Lin Weidong heard Annie's words, he was immediately overjoyed and asked curiously: "Who is he? Is he the boss of your company?"

"No." Annie shook her head and said seriously: "It's not our boss, our boss went on a business trip in the United States. He is the moderator under our banyan tree."

The moderator Annie mentioned is named Chen Cun, and is known as "Uncle" in the martial arts world. She was born in 1954.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Cun has many identities. He is not only a writer in the Writers Association, but also a moderator of the forum under the Banyan Tree and an artistic director under the Banyan Tree.

At the beginning, Zhu William, the boss under the banyan tree, asked Chen Cun to give him an official title. He said that would not work, he didn't want an official title, which was very annoying.

So Chencun named him a blind name and said that it was called "Ming" and an eye on the Internet.

Later, after the "Under the Banyan Tree" was officially corporate, they said that the name Chencun was not good, so they had to have a formal name, so they changed it to the Art Director.

In Chencun's opinion, the advantage of being an artistic director is that it sounds elegant and doesn't care about anything. It is equivalent to being a "no matter the minister". You can say a few words about anything, but you don't have specific responsibilities.

After chatting with Annie for a while, Lin Weidong knew that she wanted to write, so he stopped disturbing her. He consciously returned to his room and borrowed a copy of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" before leaving.

Lying on the bed in the room, Lin Weidong turned a few pages with "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", but he still couldn't read it.

However, when Lin Weidong thought of Annie's care for him, he felt warm and could not help but sigh that in this era, there was much more trust between people than in twenty years.

It has been two days since I left Mei'an City. Lin Weidong felt bored while lying on the bed. He tossed and turned around on the bed, and all he thought about was Wang Sica's face.

Lin Weidong, who was idle, was so bored that he got up from the bed, then took out a towel and changed clothes from his backpack, and went to the bathroom to take a hot shower.

That night, Lin Weidong slept soundly and had no dreams all night.

The next morning, the headquarters under the Banyan Tree.

With Annie's recommendation, Lin Weidong met Chen Cun in the director's office.

Because Chen Cun suffered from ankylosing spondylitis, he bent over and was unable to move, and had to rely on crutches to move.

Among the more than 10 teams mainly young people under the banyan tree, Chencun, with gray hair and crutches, is an alien and looks like a little old man.

Moreover, Chencun is an absolute computer fan. He has loved new things since he was a child, especially new machines. When he was a child, Chencun's ideal was to be an astronomer. As early as the late 1970s, he started playing with cameras.

In 1992, Chencun bought his first computer and has maintained the habit of getting up and turning it off when he is asleep.

It's ridiculous that Chencun's ankylosing spondylitis is largely caused by long-term computer play.

When Lin Weidong arrived at the director's office, Chen Cun came in for a while and the computer had just turned on.

What surprised Lin Weidong was that the navigation website used on Chencun’s computer homepage was actually hao123 founded by him.

Lin Weidong couldn't help asking: "Uncle, do you also use this navigation website?"

Chen Cun smiled and said, "Yes, I think this hao123 is very useful. I put all the commonly used URLs of users together, so I don't have to look for them one by one! Have you used it?"

Lin Weidong held back his smile and nodded, "I have used it, and I think it's very useful."

However, Lin Weidong muttered in his heart, I have not only used it, I have made the entire website.

In addition, in order for hao123 to operate normally, Lin Weidong also spent a lot of money to buy the server.

Lin Weidong asked with great interest: "Uncle, I heard from Sister Annie that you bought a 286 computer in 1992. It cost several months of salary at that time, right?"

Chen Cun shook his head and threw a cigarette to Lin Weidong: "It's not a few months, but two years' salary! I spent more than 6,000 yuan and bought a second-hand printer worth more than 1,000 yuan. At that time, many computers did not have hard drives. My one had a hard drive and 2 megames. It sounded very funny now, but it was already very generous at that time."

Lin Weidong picked up the lighter, lit the cigarette, took a sip, vomited out the cigarette ring, and sighed: "How could you be willing to spend two years' salary to buy a computer?"

Chen Cun said frankly: "I played it once before and I thought it was so fun and so smart. I have loved machines since I was a child. Computers are the smartest among all machines."

"On the first day I bought the computer, the store gave me two small games similar to Tetris, and played until 3 o'clock in the middle of the night. I thought it was over. I bought the computer for writing, at least for the excuse."

Looking at Chen Village who was talking, Lin Weidong decided to meet his preferences, and then asked: "Is it still a Dos system at that time?"

Chen Cun bounced the smoke ash and nodded, "Yes, the dos system just needs to memorize some commands, copy space c colon backslash, I can also memorize some basic commands."

"At that time, some people in Shanghai writers were already writing on computers, such as Ye Yonglie and Dai Houying. Later, a wave of "changing pens" emerged in the writer circle, and many people abandoned pens and changed computers."

"I wrote "Flowers and Flowers" on the computer. The input is double spelling. I set some phrases myself, and I can spell words with an initial consonant and a final consonant. After having a computer, my novel thought of writing one paragraph after another, and finally adjusting it."

Lin Weidong asked curiously: "So you started to contact the Internet very early, right?"

Chen Cun said proudly: "That's right, I learned to surf the Internet in 1997. At the beginning, I used modem dial-up to surf the Internet. The Internet speed was only 33.6k, and later it rose to 56k. At that time, the Internet fee was more expensive than now, and it cost 300 or 400 yuan a month. The good things I saw on the Internet could only be saved and watched offline first."

Although Chencun is a middle-aged man who has been to the countryside and has been in the factory for more than a hundred years, Lin Weidong does not feel that he has a deep generation gap with him.

Moreover, during the chat with Chencun, Lin Weidong discovered that Chencun was a very talkative person and a very open-minded person, without the condescending bad habits of ordinary leaders.

At the same time, Chencun also has a good impression of Lin Weidong, a young man. He thinks that many of the ideas proposed by Lin Weidong are extremely imaginative. From the perspective of Chencun today, they are so imaginative, but they do not make people feel unrealistic.
Chapter completed!