This time, Xia Yibing will not hesitate any more.
Before Hitzfeld could hear the rhythm of his heartbeat, his body was turned and his chin was raised.
Good.
furiously.
I had a close contact with her...
Unit Summary
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South Xinze.
The southernmost port city in the whole of Sara.
The permanent population is over one million, and there is a constant stream of merchants coming and going. A large number of factories and shipping companies choose to open branches locally, and the level of economic development is much better than that of Kuroki City at the foot of the royal capital.
Ron Perry is one of the many residents of Nantzinger. He works for the Nantzinger Workers' Daily as a trainee reporter and writer.
Even this writer was just appointed a while ago in a hurry.
As for the reason.
There are many local newspapers, including the Workers' Daily, the Nanxinze Evening News, the Nanxinze Business News, the Nanxinze Interesting News, the Nanxinze Miscellaneous News, etc. The Workers' Daily only has a price advantage over its peers, and its content is much worse.
Let's compare it with the Evening News. A copy of the Evening News costs 16 becquerels and has 24 pages, covering everything from South Bridge Street (the most famous financial street in South Xinze) to South Bridge Wharf.
Although the price of a copy of the Workers' Daily is only 6 becquerels, it only has 12 pages. The amount of information published is far less than that of other newspapers and periodicals. Buying it is a loss purely from the perspective of content and cost performance.
The reason why it was able to break through the bloody competition and find its own foothold was entirely due to its early market development with low prices and the fact that it tied a large number of workers to the name of the newspaper from the very beginning.
But in Perry's opinion, the newspaper owner, Mr. Jack Skochen, was being too smart.
Because - the workers, as a group, were almost exhausted by the labor from day to evening. Compared with using the remaining 6 becquerels to buy newspapers, they would rather use the money to buy a large glass of diluted ale in the black bar.
In addition, most workers have started families because of their stable jobs (compared to mercenaries, hunters and explorers), and have more than one mouth to feed, which has led to their habit of being stingy with non-essentials.
Buy a newspaper? Are you kidding?
I can borrow other people's finished newspapers, or go to the station and wait for rich people to throw away their finished newspapers and then pick them up, or simply look through the garbage dump - wouldn't that save more money?
Nanxinze Workers' Daily did not make a good strategic plan, and had goals but no vision. This led to indigestion after it took over the market in the early stage, and the profitability was not optimistic.
Perry had heard Skochen yelling at the people below him from his office on the third floor more than once. The reason was that the managers of the distribution points near the factory would often haggle for half a day over the difference of a few tenths of a becker in the wholesale price. Such a life was obviously far from the dream that Skochen had originally built for others - and for himself. At first, he could barely keep it in check, but soon he could no longer hide it.
"Let them go! If all else fails, find another distribution point! These greedy scoundrels... Doesn't my time cost money?"
"Bill Punk, you are a ***** beggar! Get out of here! I would rather use these goods to burn in the stove than sell them to you!"
It's not a bad thing to have a boss who is genuine, but it's not so good if he is also incompetent.
Under the leadership of Mr. Skochen's wise decision and his determination not to bow to the "lowly people", the newspaper's days became increasingly difficult.
At this juncture, "The Fun Facts" dealt another heavy blow to "The Workers' News" - they learned from the advanced experience of their counterparts in the royal capital and actually invited the well-known novelist Bain Brouck to start serializing a new book in the newspaper every day: "The Travels of Knight Fernand in the Gray Fog"!
Bain-Berluk is definitely the most popular novelist in Nansinze, especially good at writing chivalric travels. Unfortunately, this is the most popular novel theme in Sara.
The "Anecdotes" has 20 pages, more than the "Workers' Daily". But it is also more expensive, costing 12 becquerel per copy.
Previously, the Gongbao could still hold on to its market share by virtue of its price advantage of being half as cheap as the original. But when Fernan the Knight came out, not only the Gongbao, but even the dominant newspaper Nanxinze Evening News was beaten to a pulp.
For a long time, "Interesting Newspaper" was in short supply and sold out locally. People and businessmen from other cities even came specifically to buy the goods.
In response to the "fencing invitation" issued by "Interesting News", many of Nan Xinze's colleagues responded quickly.
The South Sinze Evening News announced that it had invited the retired novelist Lexler, who was not as proficient in chivalric travels as Brouck, but was particularly good at writing love stories. The truly retired work "Hot Air Balloon Wedding" officially began to be serialized in the Evening News.
The Business Daily and the Chat News also showed their talents, inviting the "Fairy Tale King" Shaman and the "Hunter King" Tallin to join the battle.
In comparison, the reaction of the Workers' Daily was much later. By the time Skohen realized the seriousness of the matter, most of the more famous novelists in the market had been invited.
There are novelists of higher quality—even better than Burrows—but most of them are too proud to serialize their works in newspapers.
Even the Evening News couldn’t invite them, so of course they wouldn’t pay any attention to the small Workers’ News.
For a time, Schoehn was extremely anxious about this matter.
Without the serialized novels in the back of the box, the public lacks enthusiasm for buying newspapers. There are only so many people who buy newspapers in Nanxinze. Now they buy other newspapers. Wouldn’t the number of people buying the Workers’ Daily be greatly reduced?
This cannot continue.
Unable to hire anyone, Skohen started to think of crooked ideas.
After all, novels don't need to be rigorous. Those bastards can write it, so why can't I try it myself?
So he gave himself a pen name, Master Jack, and began to serialize in the Workers' Daily the novel he had racked his brains to come up with in one night, "Love in a Suitcase".
…single-handedly increased the number of complaint letters sixfold.
"What's the love in the suitcase... I was very moved when I saw Jack willingly hiding in the suitcase to travel with Lucy for her. But how can a person hide in it for three months without food or water? Novels also need logic!"
"Some of the feelings are too serious... Especially the plot involving **, which is very obviously plagiarized from "Hot Air Balloon Wedding". Does the author think we can't see it by fooling people like this?"
Schoehen was furious. He tore up all the complaint letters and stomped on them. Then he locked himself in the office for a day. It was almost time to get off work when he received a notice to recruit ghostwriters within the newspaper.
In this way, Ron Perry stood out with his experience as a half-baked literary history teacher in a school and successfully got this part-time job.
Of course, the fact that he was successful—to the extent that his sequel "Love in a Suitcase" became a hit—was not because of how good his plot arrangement and writing were.
But his mind is dirty enough.
You'll understand it almost completely after reading the new letters from readers.
"I like this kind of plot, please write more, Master Jack."
"I misunderstood Master Jack. I want to apologize to the Master..."
"It turns out that the master is really good at describing this kind of thing. I compared it with all the serials on the market, and the master's writing is so real and refreshing! Please keep it up!"
The audience of the Workers' Daily is generally low-class people, so this can be considered as a treat for the audience.
Schoehn became high-spirited again, Perry got more than three times his salary, and readers also got a "spiritual film", a win-win situation for all parties.
But the good times didn't last long.
The overly explicit writing finally attracted the indignation of his peers. Dissatisfied with being compared with "people like" Master Jack by readers, several serial novelists reported to the Newspaper Supervision Department, demanding that Gong Bao stop serializing "over-the-line content".
The good times for Skochen and Perry came to an end quickly.
Without writing those vile things, Perry's level is not much better than Skochen, and newspaper sales have plummeted.
Today, he was scolded by Schoehen again. The other party threatened to give him three more days, or he would have to leave if the sales did not increase significantly.
This gave Perry a headache.
He has to become a true master in three days...how is that possible?
I have a wife and two children to support at home. How can I live if I lose my job?
If I had known this earlier, I would have chosen not to take the job. At least I could have kept my basic salary as a reporter.
In the evening, he went home from get off work in a daze.
When passing by the big banyan tree, I suddenly discovered that the orphanage under the tree had been rebuilt and became much more luxurious.
strangeness.
He looked up and down at the building with some suspicion.
I pass by here every day on my way to and from work, but I never noticed it...is it being renovated?
"This gentleman!"
A man dressed as a circus clown stopped him with a stack of tissue paper flyers.
"Harry's Library has just opened a new branch, and all books borrowed are offered at a 50% discount... I can see that you are a learned and intelligent person, so why not come in and have a seat when you have time?"
"Isn't a library... a library?"
Perry took the flyer handed to him, glanced at it, and nodded: "If I have time... I will go."
He didn't think much about it.
Even if I really go in to take a look in the future, it will probably be for writing press releases.
Hmm... The library sent a circus clown to hand out flyers, which would be a funny story if it were written.
But that was much later.
Maybe not long...
If he really gets fired... then he'll have to go back to his old job, and he doesn't know if society will want him this time.
When he got home, he loosened his tie.
His wife took the briefcase from him, thanked him for his hard work, put the bag aside, put on her apron and went back to the kitchen.
There was the sound of two children screaming and fighting in the house.
Daughter Lily is 11 years old.
Son Jack is 8 years old.
The siblings have a very good relationship, but they like to quarrel over trivial matters from time to time.
The meal was ordinary and bland.
After dinner, Perry went to the study, took out a few books from the simple bookshelf and piled them aside, intending to stay up late to learn how to "borrow".
When he was halfway through watching the film, his wife knocked on the door, came in and brought him a plate of butter biscuits and hot tea, and also massaged his shoulders to relieve his fatigue.
"Is there a problem?"
Perry knew his wife's character. Although she could be considered virtuous, sending her snacks was the limit of what she could do. The extra services were only provided because she had unspeakable secrets.
"The bank is asking for payment again."
Mrs. Perry hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth.
"The money that Lily and Jack borrowed from South Bridge Academy... Manager Fitch said that this week's loan limit can only be extended for three more days at most."
Perry was silent for a moment, then said, "I see."
After his wife left, he sighed.
I'm not in the mood to read books.
I'm not in the mood for snacks.
He knows his own level clearly. If he had the ability to improve his writing skills just by reading the works of famous writers, he would not have been expelled from his original school and ended up working as a lowly reporter.
Three days...
Three days later, he will face the judgment of fate.
When a person is completely helpless with reality and has no other options, he will actually feel more relaxed.
After thinking it through, Pai Li simply let it go.
He continued to eat his snack.
Seeing a piece of light yellow thin paper next to it, I grabbed it as well.
Oh, it's that library flyer that the clown handed out.
As he looked at it, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he felt that the owner of this library might be as smart as Jack Schoehen.
【Notice for borrowing from Harry Library】
①: The library is open from 18:00 to 23:30 every Monday to Saturday. It is closed on the seventh day. Please be careful not to miss the closing time when browsing books in the library. The library is not responsible for the consequences of missing the closing time due to any reason.
②: The library provides three services: book collection/borrowing/resident reading. There is no limit on the collection of books. Borrowing requires the corresponding book level. Resident reading must strictly follow the first article.
③: The library's borrowing/resident reading authority levels are divided into 1-10 levels. The channel for upgrading is contributor points. Contributor points can be obtained by contributing books. The higher the value of the contributed books, the more points you get.
④: The library will severely punish borrowing/reading beyond the scope of authority. Please stay in the corresponding collection area. Any violation of the scope caused by any reason will be severely punished once discovered.
⑤: The library has a large collection of books, but it is still insufficient compared to the knowledge reserves of human civilization. Introducing more guests to contribute books can indirectly increase the contributor's points. Please note - do not disclose the name of the library and the rules before confirming the other party's willingness to contribute, otherwise you will permanently lose the right to borrow books.
⑥: The museum temporarily refuses to allow any religious person to visit. If any religious person attempts to enter the museum against the museum's will, all consequences of their actions shall be borne by themselves, and the museum shall not be responsible.
⑦: All consequences of borrowing behavior shall be borne by the borrower, and the library shall not be responsible.
