Chapter 115 Goodbye, sprout
“It’s time for you to know that the world is dangerous. Don’t think that after time travel, the world will become kind.”
Gu Lu had experience in working in a factory in his previous life. . There was a co-worker in the factory (a production line) who liked to make snitches, causing others to have their wages deducted in vain. Although he did not get any money, and others did not offend him.
There is no need for a reason to stumble someone, Gu Lu reasoned, but he still did not want to easily speculate on others with the greatest malice. Maybe it's not 100% a budding editing issue, maybe there are other factors at play.
But if you can’t afford to offend, you can’t afford to hide? Gu Lu decisively used his connections within his circle. Not long after, Lao Li, the associate editor of "Story Club" with a wide range of contacts, gave him a new place to go.
[Mu Zizhao: Are there any problems with these two stories? When did Mei Ya become so elegant in aesthetics? Please vote for Youth Digest. I know the deputy editor-in-chief of Youth Digest. ]
[Ju Chang: "Youth Digest" is a literary publication, right? ]
If Gu Lu remembers correctly, this publication is sponsored by the Huaxia Youth League, with the purpose of "focusing on promoting advanced culture, serving and guiding young people".
Lao Li is familiar with other magazines. Youth Digest has columns such as "Reading Club" and "Heartbeat Theater". The former collects whimsical texts, while the latter collects science fiction, suspense, and thriller stories. Both columns can be used. Accepting "Yesterday's Park" and "Moon Stone"
Indeed, this involves Gu Lu's intellectual blind spot. He has always believed that publications such as abstracts are mainly literary.
[Mu Zizhao: Actually, Mr. Gu, if the short story you submitted for Storytelling Club was submitted to Youth Digest, you might have a chance to set a record. ]
Are you really not an undercover agent sent to "Story Club" by another magazine?
But having said that, Gu Lu would still choose "Story Club" again because the third review of other magazines was too slow.
Even though "Story Club" has three reviews and one review, which is more steps than other magazines, the review speed is still far ahead!
The first priority at that time was to make money to protect my life.
Gu Lu continued to talk after Lao Li's words. Is he creating a record for his work to be published in "Youth Digest"?
[Mu Zizhu: The youngest... No one has statistics on this, I’m talking about the color cover. 】
The color version and the regular version are twins from the same mother, but the color version of the magazine cover has a lot of meaning. The editorial department will invite famous painters to write, and the themes are the most prominent writers, scientists, athletes, cities, and topics at the moment. wait.
In other words, before Digest turned to the WeChat public account in 2016, the influence of the Youth Digest color version cover was equivalent to the Chinese version of "Time" weekly cover.
Gu Lu also searched online. To be on the cover is to appear in any of the three columns of the magazine: "Color Edition Characters", "Color Edition Focus" and "Popular Colors".
"The character in the color version of the last issue was Li Xueling, the founder of YY Voice." Gu Lu also knew YY Voice when playing games.
Going up, the writer interviewed earlier is Liu Zhenyun... I feel the pressure. Currently, Liu has written "Mobile Phone", "Bullshit" and "One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand Sentences".
"Mr. Holmes" and "The Little Prince" have been published successively. If you are lucky and win "The Strange Man", can you have a fight? Gu Lu thought about it in his mind.
［Mu Zizhao: From story writer to Youth Digest cover star, I asked who else! ]
Lao Li watched Gu Lu walk up step by step, so he was very confident, even more confident than Gu Lu himself.
Young man, become a great writer!
The reason why he has so much confidence in it is because after being an editor for so many years, a description in "Guanzi" is what he remembers the most.
"Some pilots got here by somersaulting their planes in a precise spot in the Bermuda Triangle. Some housewives got here by walking through the backs of kitchen cabinets; some mathematicians discovered..."
Going to heaven, according to the secular understanding, means dying. But "Guanzi" is not to comfort people, "It doesn't matter if you die, you can go to heaven and enjoy happiness", but "You don't have to die to go to heaven, there are all kinds of weird passages", and it has a kind of decadent warmth.
Combined with what Lao Li knows, Teacher Xiao Gu’s family environment is not good. Even though I live in the gutter, even if I have never seen the sun, I have to tell people over and over again how warm the sun is.
Every time he thought of this, Lao Li was greatly shocked.
"It's a pity that I didn't stick to this style of writing. The subsequent writing..." At this point, Lao Li hit himself on the head with a lot of force.
"It's all your fault, it's all your fault, no matter how storytelling, a good writing style has become extinct! Li Jiangyue, Li Jiangyue, you are the biggest executioner in the literary circle!" Lao Li scolded himself.
Gu Lu was chatting with Lao Li, but he didn’t know that Lao Li was beating him. "Send it! If you can become a contracted writer for "Youth Digest", you don't have to study in the evening." Gu Lu was a little happy and rested his legs on the chair.
The deputy editor-in-chief of Qu, who submitted "Moonstone" and "Yesterday's Park" to Youth Digest, did not need to say who introduced him to submit the article, because telling about it would be suspected of gaining reputation.
It is impossible to change the manuscript, and it is impossible to change the logic of the work in this life.
Gu Lu is no longer here to serve. Goodbye "Grudge"!
The 6 articles in "Zhu Chuan Minato's Selection" can all be serialized. Currently, the collection of short stories has the highest utilization rate.
"Ding ding ding——" The alarm on the phone rang, and Gu Lu's expression changed.
"Oops, there's no time." Gu Lu didn't have time to reply and ran out of the house in a hurry.
A new hotpot fish restaurant opened near my home. When it opened, a gong and drum team was invited, including waist drums, large drums, small gongs, large cymbals, cymbals and other musical instruments.
Parading with gongs and drums, someone holding a "billboard", Gu Lu remembered the time for the grand opening offer, a 32% discount on the entire site, he was ready to give it a try, he had to live a small life well alone , can't wrong yourself.
The hot pot fish restaurant closed at 12:30 in the evening. It was almost ten o'clock when Gu Lu got home. He chatted with Lao Li again, and half an hour passed in a flash.
Hot pot fish is delicious.
Tonight, Gu Lu slept later than usual because he ate more. Sleep doesn't disappear for no reason, it translates into game time, food...
The next day, Friday morning.
"Here, a little flower for you. This flower has a name. It seems to be called Guiren." Lu Ping's hair is soaked with sweat. He takes one day a week to come to school early. He is really self-disciplined. .
He took out a small potted plant from his bag. There was an osmanthus in the pot, which was extremely delicate and beautiful.
"?" Gu Lu silently took a step back.
What, what do you think when a man gives sweet-scented osmanthus to another man? I have to say, he was a little scared.
The key point is that Brother Flathead did not lower his voice. The whole class heard it, and all the eyes that came over were full of curiosity.
What is it?
"My dad went back and told me how awesome you were. My mom gave me a lesson first, and then my dad said we had an agreement with you and asked you to teach me how to write essays." Lu Ping said, "Then when my mother found out, she asked you to bring me some gifts to thank you."
Gu Lu thought about it. He had a few words with Lu's father after the parent-teacher meeting yesterday. At that time, he thought it was just a casual conversation. Send gifts as soon as you think about it, and you are very capable of action.
"In our flower shop, osmanthus flowers have been blooming recently, so my mother asked me to bring them to you to congratulate you on your academic success," Lu Ping explained.
It is definitely not appropriate to give money to children and classmates as gifts, and snacks don’t feel solemn, so Lu’s mother chose osmanthus flowers with special meanings.
Adults are very particular.
Drip——
[Eight consecutive Galaxy Awards][Integration of classical and science fiction][World science fiction masters]
Three labels started to move.
(End of this chapter)