Chapter 245 Caused Controversy
"By the way, Xiao Gu, have you received the two boxes of apples sent to you?" Mother Li suddenly asked.
Eh? Gu Lu stopped his chopsticks and shook his head.
“No?” Mother Li immediately turned her eyes to Father Li.
Li’s father said without hesitation, “Did you fill in the wrong address?”
"How could I fill it out wrong? I filled it out 100% correctly." Li Guyuan said immediately, "I still have the receipt at home. You can check it. I am definitely right."
"YTO Express is not said to be quite reliable. "Yes?" Mother Li frowned.
Then Father Li went to the side to call the express company and use the last number of his mobile phone to check the package.
"Auntie, I can't finish two boxes of apples by myself." Gu Lu said.
“It doesn’t matter if you can’t finish it, it’s a joke!” Li Guyuan waved his hand grandly, “Eat as much as you can.”
Finally, Mother Li told the reason... Because they rearranged the shelves in the store last week.
By narrowing the distance between shelves, there is an extra space in the left corner.
After discussion and Mrs. Li’s investigation, it was concluded that the residents here have a need to eat fruits such as apples and pears.
The grocery store decided to start a fresh fruit business!
Shopping around, I just negotiated a long-term supply price with a fruit wholesaler a few days ago.
The supplier was also generous and gave away four boxes of apples (18 per box).
Li’s mother filled in two addresses and gave half to Gu Lu. When the supplier shipped the goods, Li's mother and Li Guyuan were both nearby, so they wrote the orders themselves.
No wonder, generally speaking, Mother Li would let Li Guyuan carry his body.
"Look at the crescent line on your thumb. The crescent line is not plump at all." Mother Li said, "This is a lack of vitamins."
Crescent line? Gu Lu looked at his thumb, which was just a circle of white stuff. He basically didn't have any.
There is no scientific basis for this thing, right? Gu Lu thought to himself.
"The crescent mark is a method used by Chinese medicine to judge the essence, energy and spirit. It must have a scientific basis." Li Guyuan seemed to see the suspicion in Gu Lu's eyes.
He explained, "You have so little. Although it does not necessarily mean that you are not healthy, it definitely means that you have low energy. My mother and my grandfather have told me this since I was a child."
I'm sorry, Gu Lu only found out about this today after living two lives.
Whether he should say it or not, he still felt it was a bit unscientific.
"In the future, one apple a day will help you make a living," Mother Li said.
While talking, Li's father called back, "The express company said it was a problem with the site. Gu Yuan, take the receipt and Xiao Gu to have a look tomorrow."
"No. Question.”
It took about twenty minutes to return to the kennel from the grocery store.
Why is it called the kennel? Because it has not been cleaned for a long time.
"Tomorrow... forget it, let's take action today. I will definitely have a new reason not to move tomorrow."
Mopping the floor, cleaning the windows, folding the clothes, it took two or three hours inside and outside. Finish.
Gu Lu admitted that his energy was a bit lacking.
He was sticky and sat in front of the computer after taking a shower.
[Choose me, I play League of Legends very well. ]
[Studying abroad and just returning to China, I feel I am competent. ]
[Your Majesty, are there any follow-up stories to the support series? My brother, Civilization, kept humans in captivity in Australia. I feel like I can write a follow-up! ]
[You are so famous in Neon, why don’t you find an opportunity to blow up that bird club. ]
......
What kind of monsters are these? Gu Lu felt his head hurt and rubbed his eyes.
Two days after posting the recruitment news, I received 999+ private messages, very few of which were reliable.
"Huh? Happy waiter? This resume looks really good."
It took more than half an hour to filter out a few useful resumes. Especially this little girl, her resume is very beautiful.
Gu Lu called and contacted him one after another.
“Hello? Is this Mr. Ni Xuan?”
"It's me, you're Gu Lu, right? I just sent a resume casually, I didn't expect you to actually call me."
The other party then asked questions here and there.
As for the agent, this guy is a rich second generation, and he just sends out resumes for fun.
"Okay, okay, make sure to call when you come to Luo City." After leaving this sentence, Gu Lu hung up.
Rubbing his ears, there were too many crouching dragons and phoenixes online. Gu Lu realized his mistake and shouldn't be impulsive.
The remaining few people did not call, but added Q to contact them.
For this reason, Gu Lu also specially applied for a new account, with a ten-digit number starting with two.
The original account number was applied for in 2009, and it was a nine-digit number. Thinking that in the future, a nine-digit account would still cost money.
"You have to keep your account well. I heard that the evil penguin will secretly take back the account." Gu Lu decided secretly.
It wasn't until he contacted the waiter that Gu Lu felt a little decent.
The other party sent a draft of the plan at the beginning, "Plan for Expanding the Neon Influence of Works".
A lot of details have not been written. Of course, this is normal, and cooperation has not been reached yet. From a general perspective alone, Gu Lu was quite satisfied.
It is even a bit like the plan of future best-seller Keigo Higashino.
That is, two or three masterpieces are enough.
Two or three masterpieces can build a personal reputation, and the rest, even if they are average, can still sell good sales.
"The achievements of these four serialized articles, "Provide God", "The Human Chair", "Owl Man" and "Yesterday's Park", are enough to become masterpieces."
"What's more, Owl Man and Yesterday's Park have also been adapted, so their popularity It will only be higher.”
Goldfinger Gu Lu speaks very forcefully, so Gu Lu doesn’t agree with this kind of plan, but he agrees with the waiter’s ability!
From QQ to phone call, we finally agreed on a time to meet and discuss in detail.
A matter as big as agency is definitely not something that can be discussed in a short time.
Besides, there is also "remuneration", which has to be pushed back and forth. Regarding the drafting of the contract, it is natural to leave it to the lawyer Wang Shengxing.
To say that he also owed Wang Shengxing a favor, many copyright matters were troublesome to Lawyer Wang.
In addition, the royalties from the publication of "The Little Prince" have just begun, and he has not yet gone to Neon to make money, so in terms of money, Lawyer Wang is at a bargain price.
Early the next morning.
Tangyuan came knocking on the door.
This guy is truly a master of time management, a compliment!
Because according to Li Guyuan’s own explanation, he came up in the morning after having breakfast and finishing a set of papers.
Too curly.
“Let’s go.” Gu Lu and Li Guyuan went to pick up the express together.
“Why are there so many flashlights on the roadside?” Li Guyuan asked.
"It proves that there are many good people."
"Then why have the street lights been broken for more than a month and haven't been repaired yet?"
"It proves that there are bad people in the team."
" If it's not conducive to unity, don't say it." The two came to the express delivery station, which was very close to the "doghouse".
Li Guyuan took the receipt and reported the order number, and after some searching.
It’s not that the express delivery station was lost, but there was something wrong with the express delivery vehicle, so it was delayed.
The key point is that the express company is really not to blame, because Youyang, Liangping, Wansheng and other places have recently suffered heavy rains, with the average rainfall in these places exceeding 350mm.
Apples are shipped from Youyang. Heavy rains have caused flash floods and mudslides blocking the road, making it impossible for vehicles to pass.
As for why two boxes of apples arrived at Li Guyuan’s house, it was because they were shipped in two batches.
The earlier ones pass through, the later ones are blocked.
"Okay, there is nothing we can do about natural disasters, it is force majeure." Gu Lu also took his express delivery.
I also got to know a few things, but I didn’t expect that apples were grown in Youyang. His concept of Youyang was the brainwashing advertisement “There are two peach blossom gardens in the world, one in your heart and the other in Youyang.”
The high-speed rail station in the foggy city plays in a loop, which makes people’s heads hurt.
"It looks like a book, but what kind of manuscript is it?" Li Guyuan asked.
"It's indeed a sample manuscript, from People's Literature." Gu Lu knew it clearly after taking a look at the sender.
After People’s Literature is confirmed for publication, samples will be sent half a month in advance.
Currently in mid-April, it seems that the manuscript sent to the editor-in-chief Liu Yong has been directly assigned to the May issue.
It’s a bit strange. According to what Lu Lu thinks, it should be in the June or July issue.
"There is no shortage of manuscripts for People's Literature. Are you so eager? Is it because you want to help Pu Songling win the short story award?" Gu Lu wondered in his mind.
Forget it, I still don’t want to.
The publication and serialization of literary magazines is much deeper than the publication and serialization of popular novels.
“Why not open it?” Li Guyuan asked, “You are in People’s Literature again, so awesome!”
“I am a little excited to be serialized in People’s Literature for the first time. , but it felt better the second time." Gu Lu said.
"..." What else can Li Guyuan say? Others are capable of pretending to be so cool.
"Niu Fei", "Ming Ming Guan" and "Huang Ying" are three short stories published in this sample issue.
To say the new meaning of Liaozhai, it is more interesting to combine it or understand the original story.
Otherwise, just like Li Guyuan, he can only feel that the writing power of these three short stories is really powerful.
"Speaking of which, didn't you accept an interview with some newspaper yesterday?" Li Guyuan suddenly thought as he passed by the newsstand.
“The Literary Newspaper is a weekly newspaper and is published once a week, so they conducted an interview yesterday and Saturday, and it must not be published until next Friday.” Gu Lu said.
So it turned out that Li Guyuan bought a copy of "Youth Literature" at the newsstand and gave it to Gu Lu.
Is it difficult? Gu Lu opened it and looked, and sure enough! Li Guyuan's article was published in it.
The title of the article "A Bowl of Meat" is also about what happened around me.
Li Guyuan's writing style is not too juvenile, but the "narrative" is very interesting.
No more cheating than Gu Lu, Li Guyuan is a genuine young writer!
Therefore, in order to celebrate their double happiness, the two of them decided to go out for a nice meal.
The pleasant and leisurely weekend is fleeting.
Soon Li Guyuan devoted himself to studying, and Gu Lu also devoted himself to watching his friends study.
Three or four days after the last interview with Literary News, Gu Lu received an unexpected transfer.
The main reason is that the transfer party is very strange.
"Two hundred yuan is really not much." Gu Lu finally knew what Feng Jingyuan, the editor-in-chief of "Popular Fiction Newspaper", meant when he left last week.
Feng Jingyuan: Teacher Xiao Gu received a sum of money soon, but not much, hahaha.
What's going on? Although the Tianjin cultural circle is basically covered by the Four Nine Cities, as a municipality directly under the Central Government, its autonomy in some aspects is still quite strong.
For example, the college entrance examination uses Jinmen test paper.
Of course, the fifty yuan given by Gu Lu has nothing to do with the college entrance examination. It is an independent question paper for the city-wide mock test in the third year of high school. Feng Jingyuan is one of the Chinese test takers.
I have introduced Feng Jingyuan before, so everyone should know his qualifications, and there will be no problem with Tianjin Paper Examiner.
The Chinese extracurricular reading of the Tianjin simulation paper is an excerpt for rural teachers.
Excerpts are definitely required. After all, there is not that much space in the paper for a short story with a full text of 10,000 to 20,000 words.
To say it is an excerpt is actually not accurate enough. A more accurate term is "refining", which means deleting the branches and branches and laying out the main line.
The copyright fee for the excerpt is two hundred yuan.
"It is normal for rural teachers to be excerpted for extracurricular reading. I remember excerpts were also excerpted on Earth, because this article is so suitable."
"But it is very abnormal so soon."
With all the plans, "Country Teacher" was released less than half a year ago.
"Sure enough, it's one thing to write a story well, but it's another thing to have people appreciate it." Gu Lu thought.
Because of Feng Jingyuan’s love, this process was accelerated.
"But what a pity, it's Jinmen's senior high school simulation paper, and I can't see it here."
Gu Lu also wanted to see the specific content of the paper.
The exam should be over and can be found online. Let’s talk about it then, Gu Lu thought.
It's another Friday, "Literary News" is on sale.
The content of the literary newspaper and the format of the weekly determine its readership, which is completely different from most current affairs newspapers.
If "Reference News" is a newspaper that officials like to read, then "Literary News" is a newspaper that people in the literary circle and elite groups with literary interests like to read.
For example, many cultural editors like to read it.
“Exclusive Interview｜Gu Lu: The involution of education, and the education in Gu Lu’s heart.”
The headline of this issue of the Literary and Art Newspaper.
If it were just an exclusive interview with Gu Lu, the author of The Little Prince, not so many people would read it, but if you add the talk about education... it really captures the preferences of the readers.
This type of group loves to talk about education, because the more they read, the more they have ideas. He has many ideas and has his own opinions on current education.
[In 2012, his debut novel "Shoes" was published in the story club, marking his official entry into the literary world. Then he entered the peak period of his creation, and successively published many short, medium and short works such as "Mr. Holmes", "Yesterday's Park" and "Iron Pipe".
Among them, "Smashing the Piggy" tells an easy-to-understand story from the daily trivial matters of buying toys to releasing piggy banks. As a student, Gu Lu understands teenagers far better than adults.
The release of "The Little Prince" has since established his status as a fairy tale writer, the leader of the new generation of fairy tale writers...]
The beginning is an introduction to Gu Lu, but considering Considering the nature of the literary newspaper, calling him "the leader of the new generation of fairy tale writers" is also an endorsement of his platform.
This exclusive interview has about 10,000 words and is divided into two parts. The first part is about Gu Lu’s views on writing, such as talking about realistic fairy tales and fantasy fairy tale novels.
At the same time, this group of people also knows one thing.
It is often said that the genius writer Gu Lu is a genius. People have a clear idea of what kind of genius he is.
In the second part, Gu Lu talks about educational involution, which is also the most controversial point.
(End of this chapter)