1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 90: Human Teacher and Ghost Market

At this time, in order to increase sales, the Yanjing Evening News made an innovation and serialized the novel "The Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi" in the newspaper.

It was extremely popular and newspapers sold like crazy.

I've seen it in the summer, and there's no secret history of the imperial palace in it, it's not exciting at all ~ what's the point of watching it?

Of course, if you do H at this time, you might have to eat peanuts.

But if you publish a novel in a newspaper, you can earn a lot of money. And it's easy!
It is much simpler than reviewing manuscripts for magazines, and it is also convenient to increase the word count!

So, summer just started.

It just so happened that the Yanjing Evening News resumed publication at the beginning of this year, and I submitted my article in the summer.

As a result, just a few days after submitting the manuscript, the foreign royalties arrived!

You tell me~Alas!
Then, summer, oh no!

"Human Teacher"'s "Four Major Injustices in the Late Qing Dynasty" was published in the newspaper!
When you are in the arena, it is always a good idea to prepare a few more vests~
Each issue was 2,000 words, and when I submitted my manuscript in the summer, I published my first case, which was 50,000 words!
In the style of Lao Liang's story collection, the story is told in a leisurely and eloquent manner, with the meaning of storytelling and crosstalk in it.

Just a few days ago, the editor of "Yanjing Evening News" came up with the address and immediately exposed the disguise of "Renjian".

"Are you Mr. Jinghongke?!"

It scared summer!

……

As a result, today the reporter from the Yanjing Youth Daily came again, and Xia Tian thought that the mysterious identity of Teacher Jing Hongke had been exposed! What a shock!
It’s good that Jinghongke’s identity hasn’t been exposed.

Xia Tian asked the female reporter to sit down. "Reporter Fang, please sit down and talk. If you have any questions, please ask. I will answer all my questions."

Fang Xiaoyan is twenty years old, with short hair, holding a pen and a notebook in her hands, and looking capable.

"Then I won't be polite." She looked a little serious.

"Excuse me, do you think you are a child prodigy?" The first question hit the nail on the head and was indeed very impolite.

It seems that reporter Fang is not very interested in summer, no, maybe he is not very interested in the prodigy fever.

Xia Tian smiled and shook his head: "That's exactly what I want to say. Do you think there are child prodigies in this world?"

Fang Xiaoyan was stunned: This is not right! You are not playing by the rules!

Normally, you are either arrogant or humble. Why are you asking me this question?
I don't know what to say next.

"Do child prodigies exist? Or in other words, what are the criteria for a child prodigy? Is he different from ordinary people?" Xia Tian began to ask back.

"Standard?" Fang Xiaoyan was a little confused for a moment.

"That's right. When we say adult, it's clearly stated that it's 18 years old! When we say elementary school graduates, then elementary school graduates have diplomas. What about child prodigies?"

"The child prodigy you mentioned and the child prodigy he mentioned, are they the same child prodigy?"

Xia Tian simply asked, “Who killed me, and who did I kill?” and knocked out the opponent!
In my mouth? In his mouth? Who is the child prodigy? And by what standard?
But Fang Xiaoyan was not a fool after all, and she reacted quickly.

"wrong!"

"What's wrong?"

"I'm here to interview and test you, not to discuss the standards of a child prodigy with you!" Fang Xiaoyan suddenly remembered the business.

Xia Tian was about to speak, but she interrupted him, "I heard you are very good at mental arithmetic?"

Don't let him start leading the conversation again! He's going to be fooled!

Xia Tian nodded: "Not bad."

"Then let me test you." Fang Xiaoyan took out the question book she had prepared in advance, "What is the square of two-thirds of 235 times 213?"

Wow, that’s quite a big number!
Xia Tian thought for a moment and said, "2224667011!"

Fang Xiaoyan glanced at the answer and said, "Isn't this right?"

Xia Tian laughed: "Just tell me whether it's fast or not?!"

Get out of here, you deserve a beating!
With this going on in the summer, it becomes difficult to ask questions.

Fang Xiaoyan changed her attitude and chose the second option.

"I heard that you rescued American experts last year?" It seemed that she had done her homework and at least investigated Xia Tian.

"It's just a coincidence."

“You understand Chinese medicine.”

"I can't say I understand."

Why isn't this kid cooperating at all?

Fang Xiaoyan put down the question book in her hand and said, "You seem to be very resistant to child prodigies?"

"Have you heard the story of Zhongyong?" Xia Tian asked back.

"You don't think highly of the child prodigy?"

"I didn't say I didn't think highly of it. How could I be qualified? Do you have any?"

Fang Xiaoyan stopped talking.

What is good above will be replicated below.

She really wasn't optimistic.

Xia Tian took Mimi from one side, put her on his lap and stroked her while saying: "I'm not a genius, let alone a child prodigy. I'm just precocious."

"What qualifications does a child prodigy have? I didn't say my first word until I was 9 years old. I'm worse than an average person!"

You don't even want to call me Godfather~
Of course, the craze for child prodigies cannot be said to be completely negative. We should look at the issue dialectically.

Mainly because of impatience, too much impatience, too much desire to catch up, too much desire to boost morale.

Fame and fortune are a double-edged sword.

How are world views and personality shaped?
They are all children in their early teens. Are those university graduates really ready to be babysitters?
More haste, less speed! It will cause problems. Aren’t there various science and technology competitions later, where primary school students study cancer genes?
My parents have more than a dozen researchers under them, so just do the research!

Xia Tian spoke candidly with reporter Fang about his views on the child prodigy craze, but he also said that he was not qualified to comment on it and the reporter should not write about it in the newspaper.

After all, Fang Xiaoyan is also a young person and has similar views, so the two of them had a good chat.

Xia Tian also discovered his problem: he was standing too far away.

We know that the next forty years will be ours.

We only need to follow the steps to reach the top of the world, so Xia Tian feels that this kind of model, which is very prone to problems, should not exist at all.

It's as if you don't need to do anything extraordinary now, and you will be able to soar in the future. Otherwise, if you mess around, you will probably get into big trouble.

But from the perspective of today’s people, who would have thought that in just forty years, we would actually catch up with Y and surpass M?
They are really anxious and worried.

I didn't put myself in their shoes. My bad.

Having already discussed with Xia Tian how to report, Fang Xiaoyan stood up and said goodbye.

Xia Tian walked her to the door and said, "Goodbye, reporter Fang."

"See you!"

As a result, Fang Xiaoyan had not walked far when she suddenly remembered a question and wanted to come back to ask it again - what did she see?
"Why is he here?" Fang Xiaoyan watched a young man in his twenties knock on Xia Tian's door and was welcomed in by Xia Tian.

This young man is called Liu Chunlai, and he is Fang Xiaoyan’s classmate!

This classmate, like me, was in the news industry and was an editor at the Yanjing Evening News!

Why is he looking for Xia Tian?!
Fang Xiaoyan's "instinct" as a reporter suddenly ignited, and she had to get to the bottom of this matter!

And after several days, she suddenly discovered something - Xia Tian answered her numbers very quickly, as if they were not random!
The correct answer is 1113556900, but Xia Tian answered 2224667011, adding +1 to each number!
It turns out that he really figured it out in a very short time?!

……

On the other side, Xia Tian let editor Liu Chunlai into the house with a bitter look on his face.

"Um, Mr. Jing Hongke?"

"I know, I know! It's all here. There's nothing more! There's not a single bit left!"

Xia Tian took out the manuscript of "The Four Major Unjust Cases" and wanted to get rid of Liu Chunlai quickly.

The last 100,000 words of the last two cases are all here!
Please don’t come here, you look like a debt collector!

It’s really terrible to urge for more updates!

However, Liu Chunlai did not leave, but stared at Xia Tian with a smile on his face.

"What else are you going to do?"

"Teacher Jing Hongke, have you never thought about writing another one? The editor-in-chief said that the royalties can be raised!"

Good fellow, you are even targeting your future selves, are you human? I have other things to do!

The Yanjing Evening News was only resumed publication at the beginning of this year, and its sales were very weak at that time. It was far from being the newspaper that every household in Yanjing subscribed to as it was accustomed to later.

And since the serialization of Xia Tian’s "Four Major Injustices in the Late Qing Dynasty", the sales have increased visibly!
Now, there are dozens of letters sent to the newspaper every day addressed to Teacher Jinghongke!

Although there were criticisms, some said it was not worthy of being presented in a formal setting.

You care about me? I am happy with it!
No one will read what you write if it is published!

Xia Tian: You guys are scolding the author Renjian, what does that have to do with me, Teacher Jinghongke? ~
……

Xia Tian did not become popular because of the child prodigy, but was ignored. However, the human teacher became popular!
I used to write children's literature, but that is a niche field and I had no say.

The same goes for "Black Cat Sheriff". It's useless even if children like it. Children are not our treasures these days.

But when "Human Teacher" serialized the popular novel "Four Major Cases of Injustice" in newspapers, it became really popular!
The sales volume of "Yanjing Evening News" increased from tens of thousands of copies in the three months before its resumption to 11 copies by the end of November!

It makes my colleagues grit their teeth!
Especially Fang Xiaoyan from the Yenching Youth Daily, who has finally investigated the matter - it turns out that what you kept telling me about the existence of child prodigies was just unrealistic expectations of adults...

Then you turn around and transform into the human world + Teacher Jinghongke!

A special writer for "Children's Literature", author of the comic book "Black Cat Sheriff", award-winning writer of children's songs... and also serializing popular novels in the "Yanjing Evening News"!

The foreign expert who saved a heart attack is now organizing a labor fashion show?

You, you've kept it from me so miserable!

At this time, Xia Tian was still studying the styles of labor protection clothing and shoulder bags with Chun Ma and other veteran tailors. Unexpectedly, a petty-minded female journalist had already set her sights on her!

He was very excited and found Zhu Youguang with a flashlight late at night.

He and Old Man Zhu went to the ghost market with flashlights in great excitement!

The ghost market, which had been closed for many years, finally revived in Yanjing!
Although the scale is still small, this is a good opportunity to pick up a bargain.

Xia Tian: My 10,000+ yuan in royalties finally came in handy! Buy it~
Of course, it was pitch dark, which was a real test of eyesight and experience.

I was lucky in the summer. I arrived at the ghost market and within five minutes I "picked up" something good. I bought two and a half yuan worth of Hui ink for eight yuan!
This is a good thing, and it is very impressive in the eyes of literati!

Old man Zhu took a fancy to a porcelain jar and was bargaining with the stall owner by hooking his fingers.

As soon as Old Man Zhu agreed on the price and got the porcelain jar, Xia Tian took him away.

The old man couldn't withstand the force of Xia Tian and almost flew away.

"Tsk! Don't be so impatient! It's from the late Ming Dynasty, it's so rare!"

"There's something good!" Xia Tian whispered.

"Tsk, young people are ignorant. What good things haven't I seen?"

Xia Tian pointed, and Zhu Youguang shone his flashlight in the direction he pointed. "Fuck!"

Old man Zhu was shocked.
What did he see?
Bronze wine jug?!
what? !

It was passed down from your ancestors? Your ancestors were tomb robbers, right?
(End of this chapter)