Chapter 58
In the evening, Chen Nian spent ten minutes writing a missing person notice.
Then I showed it to Master He and found that there were less than 150 words in total. I spent 20 minutes revising it back and forth.
From the clothes you wear to your appearance, to how you express your gratitude in the end.
Repeatedly revise word for word.
But I finally wrote it clearly.
The next day, Chen Nian went to the shop with his master, opened the door, mixed the noodles and fried the onions, then went back and changed his clothes, and brought Dayang, who Master He had insisted on taking, to the newspaper office.
The newspaper he came to was called "Jing Bao", which was a relatively famous tabloid in Shanghai during this period.
Originally, it was based on the "China Daily" free gifts, and occasionally sold separately. However, later, the China Daily only sold well when it came with a crystal newspaper, and sales dropped sharply when I was hungry.
Finally, in 1927, Jingbao was sold separately.
And I also took a fancy to this when I was old.
After all, this store is cheap, sells well, and has wider dissemination.
"Hello, I would like to publish something in your magazine."
After Chen Nian entered the newspaper office, he saw that it was busy inside and outside.
Most of the people were wearing shirts, overalls, glasses, and some even wore peaked caps unique to this era.
When Chen Nian first walked into the office, there happened to be two people. One was carrying a big teacher's camera, and the other was carrying a bag and rushed towards the door.
Chen Nian casually grabbed a man in his early thirties with a crew cut, round black-framed glasses, a fair face, but some age wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and asked.
That person didn't seem to be in as much of a hurry as the others, but after being questioned by Chen Nian Candle, he looked up and down at Chen Nian's clothes and looked interested.
"What do you want to publish? An ad? An article?"
"A missing person notice."
Chen Nian told the purpose of his visit, and the other party couldn't help but feel a little disappointed after hearing this. He thought Chen Nian came here because he wanted to accuse him of something. After all, the three principles of Jingbao are:
1. Articles that major newspapers dare not publish
Second, "Jing Bao is willing to provide space for anything that major newspapers disdain to publish"
Third, if it is inconvenient for major newspapers to publish it, Jingbao will not hesitate to publish it.
Therefore, they are happy to publish some inside news that other newspapers dare not publish, and publish some breaking news.
But when I heard about the missing person notice at this time, even if everything was economical, the news was not sensational enough.
"Any more?"
Chen Nian saw that the other party looked a little gloomy, so he said: "Speaking of it, this is just an ordinary missing person's revelation, and the missing person is not a rich kid, but a common man's child. The reason why I don't go
Those major newspapers were afraid that they would refuse to publish or deal with the problem, so they came here to try, but I didn't expect to be treated like this, alas..."
As a result, as soon as Chen Nian said this, the other party became unhappy on the spot.
"Who said we won't log in? Bring me your missing person notice."
Chen Nian conveniently handed over what he had written last night with a photo of Master He's son.
result.
The other party opens it and takes a look!
It was normal at first, but then he frowned as he looked at it.
He looked at Chen Nian and asked, "Who wrote this?"
"Me." Chen Nian looked directly into the other person's eyes.
"Did you write it? Did you read the book?"
"I've seen some."
"Will you write anything else?"
"for example?"
"For example, if you can write some news, stories, and novels, I can publish them for you for free, of course until you stop writing them. Otherwise, we will publish them every three days, ten times a month, and we will charge you a fortune."
After hearing this, Chen Nian did the math.
In this case, that month is twelve yuan.
It's really a bit expensive.
Even with Master He's family background, he would be bankrupt within a short period of time. On the other hand, if he could write some news regularly, he could save the money.
Why not?
Anyway, when Chen Nian was in school, he also did some part-time work as a public account.
One piece of content costs 80 yuan for typesetting, and they stayed in Sichuan for more than 20 years from the 1950s to the 1970s, and stayed in this world for three years. How did they write, after nine years of compulsory education, three years of high school, and four years of high school?
Chen Nian, who was in college, knew everything about it.
This stuff is so easy to learn.
"Okay, our first publication will be in two days. If you can give me the article before tomorrow night and it can be published, I will publish this article for you. Even if it fails, it doesn't matter.
I will send it to you for one month in advance."
It's okay to be old, just tell the other person not to use your real name.
And you can't let anyone know your identity.
The other party nodded in agreement, and then gave Chen Nian his business card.
Editor-in-Chief of Jingbao: Yu Xiong.
Then everyone agreed on the handover location.
Chen Nian went back to continue ramen, and then took out the two pieces of money he had on him and gave them back to Master He: "Master He, I went to the newspaper office and talked about it. They said they were willing to publish it for free and help you find someone, but they have to wait until two days later.
They only send it out every three days."
Master He didn't expect that there are such good people in this world.
I couldn't say anything excited. It took me a while to calm down, and I took Chen Nian's hand and said, "Okay, okay, you take me with you later, and I'll bring some eggs to thank you, you're such a good person.
It’s free, how can you let others do it for free? You must do it well...Thank you, thank you!”
"Okay, I'll go with you then!"
Chen Nian still made noodles during the day, but Sisi didn't come at night. Chen Nian packed up and went home to write an article.
Regarding the subject matter, Chen Nian has already thought about it.
Mainly just some history about the Republic of China and some tidbits.
Because many things are only known later. In this era, only some of the parties involved or people close to the parties can know.
In addition, Chen Nian used some Spring and Autumn writing techniques and added some tidbits to it. He did not even modify it after writing it.
After reading it once, I was very satisfied.
This thing makes even an unscrupulous editor feel inferior after reading it!
It is very consistent with the tone of Jingbao.
Chen Niu came to the delivery location early the next morning and handed the article to the other party. When the other party took a look, a look of surprise appeared on his face!
He immediately said that if Chen Nian could publish such an article every month, he would ensure that missing persons notices would be published in every issue!
And it’s the kind with photos.
"Thank you very much, but my name must not appear. Just use the pen name 'Teacher Chen'."
"no problem!"
The two reached a deal.
Yu Xiong never asked Chen Nian's name or what he did.
Until the next day, after publication.
Chapter completed!