Conquering the world from the Kaiser's driver

Because he was very happy today, Lin Shangzhou decided to tell Letitia about this in the evening and then make a good dinner to celebrate with her.

Thinking of Letitia, he couldn't help but think of Noah, Alexandrine and Cecilia. The former was someone he liked and who also liked him, and the latter was his friend. He missed them a little.

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Chapter 37 Same Thing Different People

This afternoon, in addition to thinking about his own novel, Lin Shangzhou also cleaned the room, but he did not clean Letitia's room. It was inappropriate to enter a girl's room without her permission.

It was half past six in the evening, and Lin Shangzhou was preparing to cook in the kitchen. Normally, at this time, Letitia would be getting off work or on her way home from get off work. The restaurant owner was a very kind person, and was worried that Letitia would be in danger if she went home alone too late, so he let her leave work early.

Ten minutes later, Lin Shangzhou finished the preparations and started cutting vegetables. Letitia didn't come back. Another ten minutes later, Lin Shangzhou finished the first dish. Letitia didn't come back either. Another ten minutes later, when it was seven o'clock, Lin Shangzhou realized something was wrong.

It only takes about ten minutes to walk from the apartment to the restaurant. If you speed up, it can be shortened to less than ten minutes. As Letitia gets off work at around 6:30, she should be able to reach the apartment in half an hour even if she walks slowly.

(Are you in any trouble? Or are you working overtime tonight?)

Lin Shangzhou felt a vague sense of uneasiness in his heart. When he realized this uneasiness, he immediately put down the kitchen knife. The first two times he felt uneasy, something bad happened, so he trusted his intuition very much.

After washing his hands, he put on his coat, went to the door to change his shoes and went out. He rode his bike to the restaurant and the owner told him that Letitia had gone home from get off work ten minutes ago.

(Is it really late today?)

Lin Shangzhou walked out of the restaurant and thought about it, then realized that now was not the time to think about this problem. She went home from get off work ten minutes ago, but he didn't see her on the way here.

Isn’t this fucking iron that’s in trouble?

He immediately got on his bike and prepared to look for Letitia. Before he started, another thought popped into his mind: Could Letitia have gone shopping?

This is indeed a possibility, but the uneasy feeling in Lin Shangzhou's heart made him decide to go find Letitia.

As for how and where to look, Lin Shangzhou had a plan in mind. There was only one way from the apartment to the restaurant. Since he didn't meet Letitia on the street, she might be in the alley. He just needed to search the alleys one by one.

He rode his bike into the alley. It was already dark and the alley was very dim. After searching two alleys and falling once, Lin Shangzhou parked his bike at the entrance of the third alley, locked the bike, and walked into the alley.

There were only trash cans and some discarded items in the alley, and no trace of people. After going deeper inside, Lin Shangzhou heard people talking near the corner. He couldn't hear what they were saying, but he could hear a familiar voice among the voices of a group of men.

(It’s Letitia!)

Lin Shangzhou hurriedly ran around the corner and saw six young men surrounding Letitia, who was trembling with fear.

(Six people... can't win...)

After seeing there were six young men from society, Lin Shangzhou gave up the idea of ​​fighting with them. He was not afraid of fighting one against three, but it would be difficult for him to handle more than three. After all, he was just an ordinary person who had not learned professional fighting. The only thing he could rely on was his fighting experience in high school.

"Fritts!"

Letitia was the first to see him and shouted his name as if she had found a life-saving straw. The six young men also turned their heads to look at Lin Shangzhou.

The six young men exchanged glances, two of them stopped Letitia from escaping, and the remaining four approached Lin Shangzhou with unfriendly expressions.

The young man who looked like the boss raised his chin as if to show his arrogance, looked at Lin Shangzhou and asked:

"You know her?"

Lin Shangzhou nodded. He also observed the four young men in front of him. Each of them had a ruffian look on his face. It was obvious that they were hooligans who had been in society for a long time without a stable job. Letitia was entangled by such people. If there were fewer people, it would be easy to deal with them. He raised his fist and hit them, but now there were six people...

He said politely:

"Well, I'm her friend. I don't know how Letitia offended you all, so you're stopping a little girl from going home like this?"

The leader sneered, put his arm around his companion's shoulder, pointed at the scratches on his face and said, "Nuo, we just wanted her to chat with us. We invited her in a friendly manner, but she hurt us like this. So it's only right for us to ask her for some compensation, right?"

Lin Shangzhou looked at the young man expressionlessly. No one would believe his nonsense. But there were so many people around him. A real man should be able to bend and stretch.

The meaning of this person's words was very clear. If Letitia didn't pay, she couldn't leave. As for what they would do to Letitia if he didn't come, Lin Shangzhou didn't dare to think about it.

"So how much compensation do you want?"

Seeing Lin Shangzhou so straightforward, the man was also happy. He stretched out two fingers and shook them in front of his eyes and said, "She scratched both of us. Is 50 marks a bit too much for each of us?"

(Want a hundred marks?)

Lin Shangzhou glanced at him, took out his wallet from his inside pocket, and when he opened the wallet and took out the money from it, Lin Shangzhou pretended to hesitate for a few seconds as if his heart was in pain. After looking at Letitia who was surrounded by two people, he took out the hundred-mark note from his wallet. This hundred-yuan bill was his first month's salary as a driver.

The leading youth greedily wanted to snatch the money from Lin Shangzhou after seeing the money. Lin Shangzhou quickly put the money into his pocket, which made the youth very dissatisfied. He threatened Lin Shangzhou:

"Tsk, what's the matter? Don't you want her to leave?"

"Let her come to me first. There are six of you anyway, so I can't run away with her even if I want to."

Lin Shangzhou pointed at Letitia and said.

"Row."

The young man nodded and waved his hand to signal his companions to leave Letitia. After the people surrounding her dispersed, Letitia immediately ran to Lin Shangzhou and grabbed his arm tightly in fear.

Seeing Letitia running behind him, Lin Shangzhou took his hand out of his pocket and handed the money to the young man.

The other party took the money with a smile and gestured to Lin Shangzhou, saying, "There is nothing for you to do now. You can leave now."

Lin Shangzhou took Letitia's wrist and walked away quickly. When he got outside the alley, he breathed a sigh of relief. Last time, he had a fight with Wei Lun. It was no wonder that he was beaten up by Wei Lun before saving Nuoya. This time, he spent money to save Letitia. Should this be considered a good thing or a bad thing?

Letitia looked at Lin Shangzhou with great gratitude and said:

"Fritts, thank you for saving me..."

"You're welcome. I'm glad you're okay. I saw you hadn't returned home at 7 o'clock and wondered if something had happened to you. I went to the restaurant and asked the boss, and he said you had already left work, so I started looking for you everywhere. Fortunately, I found you in time."

Lin Shangzhou waved his hands lightly twice, leaned against the wall, took out his wallet from his pocket and counted how much money was left in it. After counting the money, he sighed lightly.

There were only a few dozen marks left. Although he was not short of money, he was very upset about giving away a hundred marks to those bastards. A hundred marks was almost his monthly salary.

Letitia walked up to Lin Shangzhou with guilt, lowered her head and said to him:

"I'm sorry for the expense. I'll give you a hundred marks when I get back."

"Let's not talk about that for now. I want to ask you, you didn't come to Strasbourg to make money to support your family, did you?"

Lin Shangzhou said that if Letitia came to the city to work in order to supplement the family income, he would not ask Letitia to pay him back a hundred marks now, and she could pay it back slowly in the future. If not, he would ask for it when he returned.

Letitia shook her head and hesitated for a moment before saying to him:

"No, my family is not short of money. I came to Strasbourg to live with some money because I was angry with my parents."

"Out of spite..."

Lin Shangzhou raised his hand to his forehead and looked at Letitia speechlessly. He really didn't expect this. He had always thought that this girl was determined to go out and explore the world alone. Although it was a bit reckless, he still admired her very much. Now that she said this, she actually ran away from home. Lin Shangzhou's admiration for her disappeared instantly.

"You...did you write to your family?"

"No, but I left them a note when I left telling them not to worry about me."

Letitia shook her head.

When Lin Shangzhou heard Letty say that she had not written a letter home, he suddenly became angry and said to Letty in a harsh voice:

"Leaving a note is useless! You've been away from home for a month, right? Even if you wrote a note to your family telling them not to worry about you, it's impossible for them not to worry. Your daughter suddenly disappeared for a month out of anger. Parents don't know where their daughter went, and they don't know where to find her. They will be very worried and sad."

Letitia was frightened by Lin Shangzhou's appearance. It was the first time she saw Lin Shangzhou angry. She also knew that it was her fault in this matter, so she lowered her head and said nothing.

Lin Shangzhou looked at Letitia and said:

"I can't say much about your family's affairs. After returning to the apartment, I hope you can write a letter to your family to let them know you are safe."

He thought of a lot of things to say, but in the end he didn't say them.

Letitia lowered her head and said in a low voice unhappily:

"I don't want to write them a letter. Once I write them a letter, they will know where I am and will definitely come to find me. If they come to find me, they will definitely take me back home. I don't want to go home."

Lin Shangzhou glanced at Letitia and finally gave up the idea of ​​persuading her.

"Tsk...Okay, that's your own business, you can handle it yourself, I won't say anything more, let's go back."

He unlocked the bicycle with his key and pushed it toward the apartment, with Letitia following him.

As they walked, Lin Shangzhou turned to Letitia and said:

"Letitia, how about I pick you up after get off work? I'm afraid they'll come looking for you again. Besides, you and I get off work at similar times, so I can go to the restaurant and wait for you after get off work."

"If it won't cause you any trouble, of course I would."

Letitia nodded. With someone protecting her, she wouldn't have to worry about what happened today happening again.

On the way back to the apartment, Lin Shangzhou also told Letitia the good news of today. Letitia did not show anything on the way. After returning to the apartment, she went to her room first, took out the novel and pen and brought them to Lin Shangzhou.

"Why did you take it out?"

Lin Shangzhou, who was cutting vegetables, looked at Letitia in confusion. Letitia said with a smile: "Please sign your name on the book for me. If you become a famous writer in the future, the value of this book will double, hehe."

"alright."

Lin Shangzhou wiped his hands on his apron, picked up a pen and was about to sign on the title page when he stopped and looked at Letitia and asked, "Letitia, do you want me to sign my pen name or my full name?"

"Sign both."

Letitia said greedily.

Lin Shangzhou smiled and signed his pen name and name on the title page.

He was in the kitchen watching Letitia happily take the novel back to her room. Thinking of the signature just now, an idea to make money popped up in his mind.

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Chapter 38 Preparing to Enter the Factory

Early in the morning of March 16, Lin Shangzhou, who had rested at home for four days, went to the newspaper office with some of his manuscripts to work. During these four days, while writing a new novel, he also perfected the idea of ​​making money that suddenly popped up in his mind - selling abridged or deluxe editions of books and limited editions with the author's signature.

He had thought about autograph sessions, but he was just a minor celebrity in Strasbourg at best, and holding a press conference probably wouldn't cover the expenses. So he just thought about it, there was no need to actually hold it.

Compared to the regular version, the deluxe edition has an additional side story that is one-quarter the length of the main text: "The Dark Ages". This side story tells the story before the First Flame and the Ancient Dragon War, and can be considered a supplement to the world view.

The limited edition includes all the contents and has his signature on the title page.

Lin Shangzhou is very confident that his book will sell well in Germany. Once he becomes famous, the price of this signed limited edition will increase several times.

He personally priced the latter two versions at 5 marks and 10 marks respectively. He did not dare to set the price too high for the limited edition, as it was not certain that anyone would buy it. He felt that 10 marks was a bit high.

After helping Letitia that night, Lin Shangzhou would accompany her to work every morning and evening. This brought the two closer, from ordinary friends to very good friends.

This morning, Letitia told him that he didn't need to accompany her to work and went out before him. Lin Shangzhou seemed not to care, but he was actually very curious. So he stood by the window and looked at Letitia on the street outside. Then he saw Letitia put a letter into the mailbox. He didn't need to guess to know that the letter was sent home by Letitia.

This scene made the slight dislike he had for Letitia disappear.

After arriving at the newspaper, Lin Shangzhou found the deputy editor-in-chief and told him his idea. Then the two of them discussed it and decided to do so.

The deputy editor-in-chief will handle related matters, and Lin Shangzhou only needs to write the manuscript.

After handing the manuscript containing the spin-off content to the deputy editor-in-chief, Lin Shangzhou pushed the door open and walked out of the office and came to his seat.

"Good morning, Paul."

After taking his seat he greeted Goebbels.

"Good morning, Fritz."

After saying hello, Goebbels looked at the manuscript on the table and fell into deep thought. Seeing that he was thinking about a story, Lin Shangzhou stopped disturbing him.

He turned his head and looked around the office, and saw Monchi with a worried look on his face, so he stood up, walked over, patted Monchi on the shoulder and asked, "Monchi, what are you worried about?"

"I am worried about the investigation that the editor-in-chief asked us to do before."

Monkey said with a bitter face.

(Investigation work?)

Lin Shangzhou's interest was immediately aroused. He pulled out Eric's stool from under the table and sat on it, and asked curiously:

"The editor-in-chief asked for it? What kind of investigation is it? Can you tell me about it?"

Monchi glanced at him and said, "When the editor-in-chief came back last month, he asked us to do a survey on the situation of factory workers in the Strasbourg area. He didn't ask for too much, he just told us to find a factory and write a report after the survey."

"We found a machinery factory to conduct our investigation. We initially wanted to enter the factory and question the workers directly, but the security guard drove us away after knowing our purpose. We then planned to question the workers after they got off work, but for some reason the workers refused to talk to us."

"Then Eric came up with an idea to find someone to work in the factory for a while to observe. This was a good idea, but we didn't have the time to work in the factory. Everyone at the newspaper had other things to deal with and couldn't spare the time."

Lin Shangzhou nodded slowly, indicating that he understood. As a left-wing newspaper, the newspaper was also called "Workers' Newspaper". It was necessary and inevitable to understand the situation of the workers. However, Monk and his team obviously lacked experience in this area, so they kept running into obstacles.

Later, Eric proposed a feasible solution, but they did not have enough time to implement it, so it ended in nothing.

Lin Shangzhou knew the reason for their previous two failures. The factory owner must have told the security guards that outsiders could not enter casually. What's more, these idiots told their purpose as soon as they went up, so it would be strange if they could get in.